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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Who writes about work?

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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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The Marin Poetry Chair

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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The Golden Age of Reading?

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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

The Bard of Hyde Park

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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The 22nd Trillium shortlists

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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A novel about a painter

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Poetry & hair

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Starting them young

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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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All Suffering Soon to End

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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

Speaking of fakes

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Using art to teach history

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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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Illustrated letters

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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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