Juliana Spahr:
“The Incinerator”
Lana Turner,
new kid on the block
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An 11-year-old poet
takes on the Taliban
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A new chapter for Robin’s Books
In Madison, bookstores fight back
In
A campaign in Shorewood, WI to
have the city buy the bookstore
Used bookstores carry on
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Kit Robinson’s Messianic Trees
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis
introduces The Alphabet
(MP3)
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Why hasn’t John Ashbery
ever received
the National Medal for the Arts?
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Poets in Kenya
have discovered blogging
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A profile of Richard Deming
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Dubai bans an author
Atwood boycotts
An interview with Ali Al Sha’ali
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Writer stabbed at reading in
More questions than answers
in the stabbing of
Xu Lai
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Nikki Giovanni on Bill Moyers’ Journal
A mellower Giovanni
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Kenneth Irby’s Studies:
Cuts, Shots, Takes
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Jean Vengua’s Prau
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Laura Moriarty’s account
of the AWP
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Strange bedfellows in
American Hybrid
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Alex Davies
on naming & categories
in poetry
(PDF)
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Dan Wilcox
on chapbooks
in the
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Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov
& the war now
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Videos from John Ashbery,
Michael Palmer & Fanny Howe
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Poems for the Millennium: Vol. 3
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The economics of Poetry
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Mae Winkler Goodman Samuel has died
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Philip K. Dick’s last novel
will be self-published
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The cancer cluster
in the UCSD lit program
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Finally!
A serious biography of
William Carlos Williams
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A graphic history of the Beats
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What writers earn, on average, in the
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Can a failed state
lead the world’s literature?
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National Poetry Day in
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Salman Rushdie:
the fatwa at 20
Is it possible yet
to discuss the book?
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A profile of Hannah Zeavin
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“Poetry is the country music of literature” –
Gabe Gudding
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Amiri Baraka reads Charles Olson
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Suzi Gablik on her time at Black Mountain
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Pride and Prejudice
and 7-foot tall extraterrestrials
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The return of the “middle man”
to poetry
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A more-rare-than-rare
Larry Fagin reading
in
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What I’m On
by
Luis Humberto Valadez
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A poets’ café
with a hip-hop twist
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Talking with April Ossmann
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A profile of Ibukun Babarinde
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Charles Bernstein has Class
(MP3 now in stereo)
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A profile of Matthew Carter
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Tracking the wild Barthelme
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Michael Kelleher on New York’s Grateful Dead
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In Idaho Falls,
no more Monday paper
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Reading The NY Times Book Review
for what really matters
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Newspapers as non-profits?
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Edward Upward has died at 105
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Close reading Donald Justice
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Twitter versions of classic lit
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Are university presses at risk?
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Trusting Tom Clark
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John Olivares Espinoza’s The Date Fruit Elegies
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Liquid poetry in
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A profile of Nina Nero
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31 translations of the same haiku
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Off to a slow start,
first-time author
finds a bidding war at 70
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Sharing a birthday –
Audre Lorde & Yoko Ono
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Stanley Fish:
Do academics deserve free speech?
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Librarians’ jobs
are being transformed
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Trying hard to not rob the library
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Talking with Armistead Maupin
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Jack Micheline, One of A Kind
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Lewis Turco on
Robert Bly’s pink fog
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David Giannini’s A Z Two
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Alfred Knopf is dead
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Remembering Carol Houck Smith
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Betjeman goes to
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Galway Kinnell at
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Howl
for Lindsay Lohan
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Wendy Cope’s writing room
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Here comes Tolkien’s juvenilia
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The consumerization of art
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Futurism arrives at last
at MoMA
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ICA has all the dirt
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In
surrealism 2.0
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What photographers hate
Creative Commons
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An intriguing question:
what is Philippe Petit’s
status as art
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Ellen Fullman
keeps stringing us along
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SF Blues Festival canceled
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You can stick a fork in Muzak
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Just how have The Nation’s
reviewers judged
Oscar-winning films
over the years?
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The latest anti-regulation hype
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