Tuesday, June 8, 2010
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Monday, June 08, 2009
Cecilia Belle on David Bromige
Chris Bromige on his father
David Bromige
translating Rilke into Californian
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Ulysses
sells for £275,000
“a kind of heaven of textuality”
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Juliana Spahr
on Notes on Conceptualisms
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Adam Fieled:
Goes on and on about SoPA
“Poetry has fallen behind
the other arts”
in its capacity to disturb
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Bruce Sterling:
18 challenges in contemporary literature
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Charles Bernstein:
recent recommendations in critical writing
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Dementia
in recent poetry & prose
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Poetry heads into outer space
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Protracted Type,
a big collection from
Nico Vassilakis
(free as a PDF)
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Translating poetry visually,
which is to say, not at all
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Just how bad
are poetry reviews?
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Henry Gould
on Christianity & the “New Thing”
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Poets on the Edge:
Contemporary Hebrew Poetry
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From Proust’s phone call
to the web
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A new home, not not a clear purpose, for Poets House
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“The Fallacy of Rejecting Closure”
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A digital journal for Daniel Defoe
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Samuel Johnson’s struggle
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Paul Ruffin, Texas laureate
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“Free” digital books
come at a high price
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Poets & scientists
making noise together
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Strunk & White endures
though some linguists disagree
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The conversation
may be limited to out species?
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Looking for a reading
in Thunder Bay
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Robin Blaser in Brazil
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Literature & the First Amendment
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The cookie cutter poetics of slam
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A writer’s group
made up entirely
of therapists
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The legacy of
David Foster Wallace
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A profile of Alice Munro
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“Language is a virus”
(registration required)
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“Poetry is for everyone”
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Norton’s anthologies
of contemporary poetry
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Poetry publishing in the 21st century
Response to the responses
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Talking with Roger McGough & his daugher Izzy
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Here come the Okras
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Paul Berman
on Gabriel García Márquez: A Life
The Chron review
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Robert Burns in South Carolina
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Charles Wright, reading
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The Oxford embarassment
continues to make press
“I am not aware of any more complaints”
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Salt’s spoof gets noticed
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Jack Foley on KPFA
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Ever more Ooga Booga
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& poetry
NYRB on both
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What kind of publishers
should survive?
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Good news re print
from deggers@826national.org
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On the ostensible demise of the university
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David Byrne, wax cylinders
& e-books
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The collages of John Ashbery
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“Save us from artists using language”
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Susan Bee in Art News
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The photographer John Hopkins
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The Nauman workout
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The Biennale is like Kafka
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Yale sued over stolen Van Gogh
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Reviving
the music of the Nipmucs
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La Monte Young’s secret tuning
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What to make of “best 100” lists
“Top 100 books of all time”
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Charles North, introducing John Ashbery
Ashbery on Bookworm, discussing the work of Pierre Martory
From Raymond Chandler to John Ashbery by way of Ogden Nash
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Discovering Dunbar
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A profile of Jeramy Dodds
The Griffin finalists
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How does cultural history get written? (slowly)
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Muddy Realism & the New Thang
Just add manifestos
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Kan potes spel? (good ones can)
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More on Charles Olson & Henry Corbin
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John Olson’s poetics
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Kamala Das has died
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The Beats are hot in Hollywood
But not so Gary Snyder in Seattle
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Poetry is hip!
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Nate Mackey: First Person Pronouns & Concrete Settings
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Jordan Davis goes to Narnia
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June 9,
Jane Sprague hosts
Tina Darragh & Diane Ward
@ Belladona (NYC)
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June 12 in Bury, Lancashire
Jesse Glass at the Text Festival
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Hannah Weiner:
An Argument for Black Dada
Adam Pendleton
at Haunch of Venison, Berlin
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Adam Fieled’s
The White Album
(PDF)
Fieled,
thinking about reception
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A champion for Ulysses
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Michael Lally:
What’s a book?
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A profile of the chair
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A Wiki for innovative audiences
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The future of book reviews
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The social impact of the
National Spelling Bee
is to make language palpable
even in a Sprint store
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2 billion people are learning English
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Robinson Crusoe,
one syllable at a time
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The ancestor of language
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Languages on life support
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Charles Bernstein’s soundwork of the 1970s
has been remastered
Maria Damon’s EM
(For Emma Bernstein & Her Family)
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Purging reds at Yaddo
with Flannery O’Connor & Robert Lowell
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Talking with Mark Yakich
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More videos from Palfest
Plus photos
(including a second attempt
to shut the festival down
by the Israeli army,
this time countered by the
British Consulate)
And blogs
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Eva Touster has died
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Poetry and/or fiction
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“a hatchet job
posing as a bad literary biography”
An introduction to Robert Creeley
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An unbound
Book About Death
& how you can participate
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Betty Sue Flowers & LBJ
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Richard Wilbur at the 92nd Street Y
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Another editor bails on Granta
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Who now for Oxford?
Look elsewhere for Oxford chair,
Heaney advises
National Post:
Make it a “bad boy”
The NY Times tries to sum up
the whole sorry mess
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Who gives a *#$% about poetry?
We do, sayeth the BBC
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Jane Hirshfield in Xi’an, China
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West Haven’s poetry post turns 10
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A profile of Albert Huffstickler
A Huffstickler medley
on the Lilliput Review blog
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Seamus Heaney translates
Robert Henryson
An excerpt
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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore tale
is just off the Columbia campus
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Lemmings search for
the next big cliff
Big morph in the Big Apple
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Starbucks cuts poetry program in Hawai’i
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Mary Swander,
Iowa’s poet laureate
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Mary Ann Hoberman, laureate
of Greenwich, CT
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David Cornberg’s The Dailies
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James Shea’s Star in the Eye
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The New Selected Poems of Dannie Abse
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A review of two Twin City poets
that only mentions one
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“the greatest short-story writer in the world”
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Inside Neil Gaiman
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Gertrude Himmelfarb’s
The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
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Some new videos of readings
from the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival
plus others on the Dodge Fest’s
Poetry Friday blog
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Are literary festivals
just a form of porn?
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An ideal:
to write and not be published
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“The Booker
wouldn’t keep me in cigarettes”
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A video on the history of the award here
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Love poetry is hardest says Duffy
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Donald Everett Axinn’s
Travels in My Borrowed Lives
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Murakami’s 1984
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Connecticut weeklies outsource content to India
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Time to start charging for content?
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When is a communications medium obsolete?
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EU wants in on Google Book funds
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Kindle begins to make inroads on serious readers
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The Year of the Bible: one really bad idea
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10 ways to think about social networking & the arts
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Rupert looks to a digital future
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Laurie Duggan
on arts & literature
in Oz
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Postmodernity & the 2 kinds of realism
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Court completes Kokoschka theft
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Larry Rivers at Tibor de Nagy
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Rauschenberg, Johns
& gay arts mid-century
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Warhol Foundation sued
for verifying fakes
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The $232 million arts high-school
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Why aren’t museums controversial anymore?
Could be a lack of sex?
Tracey Emin is over sex
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Where America stands, design-wise
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A 10-CD Art Tatum set
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Steve Earle sings
Townes Van Zandt
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Iggy Pop & the French novel
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A bio of Tom Waits
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Why musicals suck
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George Lakoff on the political meaning of empathy
Why Lakoff still matters: framing the debate on © law & digital publishing
Competing curricula over ©
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The Odyssey of Cornel West
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Why “improvements” make things worse
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Ronald Takaki has died