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
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