Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Poets House is open!
“a lot of people whose work I can’t even read
but I’m glad they’re there”
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Monkeys' Moon,
a film collaboration by H.D., Bryher
& directed by Kenneth Macpherson
Richard Deming on Monkeys' Moon
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Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism
Laura Hinton blogs
the Opening night plenaries
Performances by
Sally Silvers & Carla Harryman & friends
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NPR talks to Joshua Clover
about the UC walkout
Santa Cruz students blockade Commons
2 UC Berkeley administrators
propose a federal bailout
for public universities
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This is Banned Books Week
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The last flight of Jim Carroll
Eileen Myles on Jim Carroll
Patti Smith on Carroll
Travis Nichols,
scanning Carroll’s obits
Tom Clark,
an elegy perhaps
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Harryette Mullen reads Bob Kaufman
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Rae Armantrout’s Next Life
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Steve Vincent
on Brandon Brown & David Larsen
@ Small Press Traffic
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David Perry on
Sawako Nakayasu’s
Hurry Home Honey: Love Poems 1994-2004
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Seeing & the image in Ann Lauterbach
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Will Alexander’s
The Sri Lankan Loxodrome
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The little magazine in Canada,
1925-1980
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Filipino American Poetas en San Francisco
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Toward a history of
Los Angeles poetry
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Robert Kelly & Clayton Eshleman,
reading at St. Marks
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A Bei Dao portfolio
translated by Eshleman & Lucas Klein
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Not “what is poetry?” but
“what is the sentence?”
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Chanting for Sadc:
a poetry festival in Namibia
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What’s worse than a poet?
Two poets!
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The American Bookbinder’s Museum
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Luis Sagasti on
“Poetry & Innocence”
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Andalus:
a press on the Israel/Palestine divide
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Borges & the birth of haiku
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Was Michael Donaghy an Irish poet?
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Isaac Rosenberg’s Night and Day
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Anne Waldman in Nebraska
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Where statisticians turn to poetry
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Mama Dada:
Songs of the Baroness’s Dog
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On Trevor Winkfield & John Ashbery
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Food, body, politics
@ Small Press Traffic
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Fonetic Speling vs. Shakespeare
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Amy Gerstler:
poetry doesn’t hurt
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The poetry of Avot Yeshurun
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Edward Hirsch reads
Jason Shinder’s “Eternity”
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Whitman lobbies for tax help
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Biggest Poe show is a go in Austin
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Reading The Flood
but no fan of the post-apocalypse
Atwood’s humor
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Remembering Richard Brautigan
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Kate Greenstreet’s
reading tour
would wear out Bob Dylan
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Or just Christmas cheer?
Did Joe Wilson shout “Judas” at Dylan?
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Bookies bet on Oz for Nobel
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Taking William Carlos Williams’
“the perfection of new forms as additions to nature”
to the next level
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Garrison Keillor:
My Great Escape
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
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Talking with E.L. Doctorow
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What is
“the great Indian novel”?
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TriQuarterly moves online
sans its editors
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“Staring at textpo
creates the potential
for vispo”
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Lacan:
The Insistence of the Letter
in the Unconscious
(reg. req.)
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Joel Brouwer
on Juliana Spahr in Tuscaloosa
& the meaning of place
Rebecca Wolff:
what means place?
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Talking with Vernon Frazer
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Wanting Carver to win
Talking with Tess Gallagher
Is Carver just a fiction by Lish?
Carver, the naturist
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Releasing the novel as a podcast
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Jeffrey Cyphers Wright on
Rachel Loden’s Dick of the Dead
Philip Metres on Loden’s
“The Toy Box of my Intentions”
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Art, genius, capitalism,
outsourcing,
Jed Rasula & Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson’s Day
with Kenny Goldsmith
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A belated !?!
for National Punctuation Day
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Recordings of the 2008 season
of Poems & Pints
include Katy Lederer, Matthew Zapruder,
Sharon Olds, Paul Muldoon & more
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Raúl R. Salinas:
Indio Trails:
A Xicano Odyssey
Through Indian Country
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“Best” fiction of this millennium
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The most influential over the past 25 years?
100 Years of Solitude
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Jonathan Lethem:
between the novel & its publication
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Samuel Johnson, anti-American
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A selection of work from David Wolach
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James Wright, unsmudged
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The Queen Mum & Ted Hughes
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Wendell Berry:
“A Speech to the Garden Club of America:
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Britain’s Quietists go green:
Carol Ann Duffy
Alice Oswald
Andrew Motion
Kathleen Jamie
Carol Rumens
John Harley Williams
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Jane Austen is the focus
at the Morgan Library in NYC
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Paris court to hear Google © case
US ruling delayed to October 7
Harold Bloom (& Arlo Guthrie) vs. Google
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Scribd sued over ©
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Another win for QWERTY
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The fast-growing market of e-book readers
Inching closer to a ubiquitous e-reader platform
British troops snap up e-book readers
British librarians desperate for e-books
Amazon delaying public domain works
on Kindle
Dan Brown’s e-book sales turn out to be
not so special
E-books provide retailers with new sales opportunities
Booksellers unfazed by e-books
China Mobile
to lauch e-book service
Barnes & Noble files e-book plans with FCC
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Time Warner
looks to dump magazines
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Before choosing the e-book,
ponder the format
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Carol Peters’ Sixty Some
comes in at least 5
different formats
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Scanning 55 reviews
of the Keats flick
A positive review
from a critic who
“doesn’t get poetry”
“Keats started coughing
much too early…”
“Bright Star shines brightly…”
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Selling Byron’s letters
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Catalina Cariaga:
Cultural Evidence
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SF Chronicle adopts
the indie best seller list
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Pennsylvania’s
“solution” to budget woes –
tax the arts!
Unfair! cries The Inky
Art groups howl
Does Harrisburg
need the arts?
In Pittsburgh,
Michelle Obama promotes the arts
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The good news
is that Philly libraries
won’t be shut down
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Eileen Myles: “My Man”
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Kenmore:
Poem Unlimited
(or at least one facet
of this very large-scale project)
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Ballard, the master
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Darwinian Explanations
for the Origin of Language
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Gertrude Stein:
“Composition as Explanation”
(reg. req.)
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“I celebrate Myself,”
the interview
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The other Anne Sexton
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Still reading Fitzgerald & Hemingway
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New Yorker blogging
its archives
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Heather McHugh,
Edwidge Danticat, Deborah Eisenberg
& Rackstraw Downes
win MacArthurs
Heather McHugh on PBS
Newshour’s video archives
The MacArthurs look backwards
in the arts
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Ken Tucker:
“Sonnets, vomit & Mad Men”
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Erotic Emissions in Greek Poetry
(reg. req.)
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Scrabble tricks
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Joel Brouwer: types of knowledge
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Experiments & Disorders:
New Poetic Forms
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Barahmasa: Song of Twelve Months
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When (and why) books are embargoed
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E.B. Bortz
“on the loose” at G-20
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Faber turns 80
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Edmund White’s Rimbaud
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Frances Chung:
Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple
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“the smaller the ball
the better the book”
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Rightwing language maven
William Safire has died
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Revisiting Richard Ford
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Why hasn’t sci-fi
ever won a Booker?
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The roots of John Cheever
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Judging a suspect by their books
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James Ellroy’s
“dirty secrets”
Ellroy on women
“Rewriting History is a Gas”
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Talking with Lorrie Moore
Moore on Clarice Lispector
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Talking with Richard Wilbur
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Meeting Sherlock Holmes
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Michael Wood:
Be careful what you wish for
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Roman Polanski
arrested in Zurich
Busted for 1977 rape case
involving a 13-year-old
The first of the carnival court cases
His life in photos
Extradition
could take months
Anger at arrest in France & Poland
Could this be the path to freedom?
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Prepare now
for Anthony Braxton’s
8-hour
Sonic Genome Project
next January in Vancouver
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Talking with Tyondai Braxton
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A profile of Sonny Rollins
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Pearl Jam’s Backspacer –
spiritual truths
for aging Gen Xers
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George Pringle –
the “posh electro poet”
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A bicycle militant reads David Byrne
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Six months of jail time
for graffiti
in Boston
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Yosi Sergant resigns from the NEA
What hath Sergant’s blunder wrought?
And how sincere are Beck et al?
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Barry Schwabsky on
Jack Tworkov’s lost illusions
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Emile Norman has died
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Gold Leaf Studios
in Washington, DC
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Leaving Derrida behind
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Top Ten
Slavoj Žižek video moments
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