Wednesday, October 24, 2007
You read it here first:
The Boston Red Sox
will win
the World Series
(The last thing
you want to give a team
that has been playing
way over its head
for a month
is a week off
to think….)
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Writing vs. editing vs. tenure
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An account of the conference
on
Christopher Okigbo
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Sargon Boulus,
Iraqi poet
& translator
of Pound, Williams, Shakespeare,
Duncan & Ginsberg,
has died
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Doris Lessing:
9/11 was
”not that bad”
& offers
a reading list
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The House of Anansi
celebrates
40 years
of independent publishing
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The
”Why Indie Bookstores Matter”
Tour
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This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore
tale
is of the last major indie
in the
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The School of Quietude:
a literal perspective
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The latest in library services:
Dance Dance Revolution
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Libraries, content & copyright
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A new Pound bio
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A profile of
Sam Hunt
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The Governor General’s
shortlist
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Why you should read poetry
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Stephen King:
why short stories suck
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Reviewer stops writing
about himself
long enough
to notice
two new books
of Canadian poetry
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Portrait
of a drop-in
writers’ workshop
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This poetry contest
sounds mawkish
until you realize
how it’s promoting
Scottish nationalism
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The Christian right’s
”worst nightmare”:
Dumbledore & sex
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Inside manga
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A reading group
in
devoted to
the poetry of
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Remembering
Kwesi Brew
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The slam scene
at
Palo Alto High
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A mixed review
of
Jean Sprackland
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War over
War and Peace
§
Reading
Howard’s Baudelaire
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Maya Angelou
on
The Early Show
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Teacher faces charges
over reading list
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The son also rises
§
is a hit
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MassMOCA demonstrates
how not
to show contemporary art
§
Baryshnikov
facing foreclosure
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NMFG?
(no money from the government)
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TMI
(too much information)
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Anita Allen
on
philosophy, law & race
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A profile
of the great song writer
Lee Hays
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Yesterday’s
number of visits
to this blog,
1,733,
surpassed
the previous record
by 74.
Labels: links, Passings, sports
yet it is a bit difficult to ignore
the steam behind the team from colorado
i worry that boston isn't
putting wakefield on the mound at
all
they need a screwball thrower
to throw the straight ahead power hitters off balance
but i hold
that with the dramatic fielding of manny ramires
and the smile of david ortiz
will be enough to carry the redsox home with the trophy
and the cash
already the series is loaded with
energy
would that all the other spectacles would stop
in solemn reverence
dammit
In other news, Yaz throws out the first pitch.
Blue Dragon Books in Ashland, Oregon closing at year's end.
Eureke Books in Eureka, California will close by year's end if no buyer found.
Odyssey Books of Novato, California (formerly of San Rafael) by the end of the year.
The obit list goes on....
These are the people who elected Bush.
I suspect that, tragically, many other kinds of people also elected him.
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