Thursday, July 03, 2008
For the record, just weeding the blogroll of dead links caused the list to shrink by roughly 250 names, one quarter of its size. There will no doubt be a flurry of new additions – Lynn & I have already received something like 20 additional requests that we’ll get to in the next week or two. As I’ve noted to one or two people already, just because your zine, reading series or line of chapbooks has a Blogspot page doesn’t mean that it should be a part of the blogroll. The entire purpose of this blog, blogroll included, is to encourage discussion between poets & readers of poetry, and that’s really what the list itself is intended to signify & encourage. As is the case with the news links I post once or twice each week, I don’t have to approve of what’s being said, but, so long as it doesn’t strike me as overtly racist or sexist, I have no problems creating a link. Overall, I’ve been pleased overall with reactions to these features – for an hour one day last week, people were clicking on links at a pace slightly faster than one every six seconds.
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This link won’t be good for long. But you can catch Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book as a radio play if you hurry.
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I’m going to be on the road for a few days & won’t be taking the laptop. You are on your own till Monday.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Recently Received
Books (Poetry)
Julianna Baggott, Compulsions of Silkworms & Bees, Pleiades Press, Rock Hill, SC / Warrensburg, MO 2007
Ben Lyle Bedard, Implicit Lyrics, Punch Press, Buffalo 2008
David Blair, Ascension Days,
Laure-Anne Bosselaar, A New Hunger, Ausable Press,
Trevor Calvert, Rarer and More Wonderful, Scrambler Books,
Peter Conners, Of Whiskey and Winter: Prose Poems, White Pine Press, Buffalo 2007
Andrei Codrescu, Jealous Witness, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2008. Includes CD of
“Maelstrom: Songs of Storm & Exile,” performed by Codrescu and the New Orleans Klezmer AllStars
William Corbett, Opening Day, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn 2008
Peter Culley, The Age of Briggs & Stratton, New Star Books,
Jim Daniels, Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies,
Ben Friedlander, Drastic Measures, An Anachronism, porci con le ali,
Isabelle Garron, Face Before Against, translated by Sarah Riggs, Litmus, Brooklyn 2008
Robert Gibb, World Over Water,
Gary Gildner, Cleaning a Rainbow, BkMk Press,
Diane Glancy, Asylum in the Grasslands,
Mariela Griffor, House, Mayapple Press,
John Godfrey, City of Corners, Wave Books,
Forrest Hamer, Rift,
Fanny Howe, The Lyrics, Graywolf Press, St. Paul 2007
J II, Three Trios, translated by Judith Hall, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL 2007
Laura Kasischke, Lilies Without, Ausable Press, Keene, NY 2007
P.H. Liotta, The Graveyard of Fallen Monuments, Quale Press,
Glenna Luschei, Libido Dreams, Artamo Press, Santa Monica 2007
Jack Marshall, The Steel Veil, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2008
Charlotte Matthews, Still Enough to be Dreaming, Iris Press,
John Matthias, Kedging, Salt,
Jane Mead, The Usable Field, Alice James Books,
Joseph Millar, Fortune, Eastern
Roger Mitchell, Half / Mask,
Sheila E. Murphy, Lineations, Cricket Press (for the Small Chapbook Project),
David Mutschlecner, Sign, Ahsahta Press, Boise 2007
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, At the Drive-In Volcano,
Charles North, Cadenza, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn 2007
Donald Platt, My Father Says Grace,
Luke Roberts, Ripcord Worship, Grasp Press,
Judith Roitman, No Face: Selected & New Poems, First Intensity,
Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Verge, Parlor Press, W.
Robert Sheppard, Complete Twentieth Century Blues, Salt,
Eleni Sikelianos, Body Clock, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2008
Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2008
George Stanley, Vancouver: A Poem, New Star Books,
Josh Stanley, Glogy, Grasp Press,
Donna Stonecipher, The Cosmopolitan, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2008
Stacy Szymaszek, from Hyperglossia, Hot Whiskey Press, Chicago 2008
Timothy Thornton, Now Vulgate, Grasp Press,
Tony Tost, Complex Sleep,
Tony Tost, Invisible Bride,
Terence Winch, Boy Drinkers, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn 2007
Mark Yakich, Green Zone New Orleans,
Books (Poetry Anthology)
Joshua Beckman & Matthew Zapruder, State of the Union: 50 Political Poems, Wave Books,
Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, Lesley Wheeler, editors-in-chief, Letters to the World: Poems from the
Books (Other)
Amanda Ackerman, Theory of Language, Eohippus Labs, Los Angeles 2007
Stan Apps, Handbook of Poetic Language, Eohippus Labs, Los Angeles 2007
Kelly Lydick, Mastering the Dream, Second Story Books, Oakland 2008.
Michael Theune, editor, Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York 2007. Includes Christopher Bakken, Mark Yakich, D.A. Powell, Prageeta Sharma & Michael Theune, more.
Journals
ABC, no. 6, “Haiku Not Bombs” issue by Collective Haiku, Another Brooklyn Chapbook, Brooklyn, 2008. Includes Tom Gilroy, Jim McKay, Shin Yu Pai, Grant-Lee Phillips, Alison Roth, Rick Roth, Denise Siegel, Patrick So.
Aufgabe , no. 7,
Damn the Caesars, vol. 4, Buffalo 20008. Includes Lisa Samuels, Alan Gilbert, Stacy Szymaszek, Matvei Yankelevich, Hoa Nguyen, Simon Pettet, mIEKAL aND, Linda Russo, Kyle Schlesinger, C.J. Martin, Billy Mills, Shin Yu Pai & Andrew Shelling, more.
Invisible Ear, no. 1,
Kadar Koli, vol. 2, no. 1, Habenicht Press, San Marcos, TX 2008. Includes Valerie Coulton, Stephen Vincent, Noah Eli Gordon, Sotère Torregian, Michelle Detorie, Susan Gevirtz, Chuck Stebleton, Rusty Morrison, Joseph Massey, Dale Smith, more.
Pleiades, 28:2,
Skein, no. 4, no location given, October 2007. Includes Seth Abramson, Ezekial Black, Joshua Bolton, Nicole Burgund, Heather Christle, Rachel Daly, Lawrence Giffin, Jonathan Hall, more.
Work, no. 5,
Other Media & Formats
Hassle, no. 1,
Hassle, no. 2,
George Oppen, A Centenary Conversation, Poetics Program, SUNY Buffalo et al, 2008. Program brochure (with inserted schedule) for the recent conference.
Luke Roberts, Impetus / Scatter, Grasp Press,
Ric Royer, with sound by John Berndt, There Was One & It Was Two, Narrow House, Baltimore 2008. CD & booklet
Timothy Thornton, Motorcade / Police Horse Under Branches, Grasp Press,
C.P. Wheen, Thwart / No Ascension, Grasp Press,
Ron Silliman, Charles Alexander, James Fei, 4-25-08 , Cue Art Foundation, New York 2008. DVD video.
Still catching up on all items received
since January 11.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
William Logan on Frank O’Hara
Sharing a coke with Frank O’Hara
Is Kent Johnson the new Frank O’Hara?
Tony Towle & Andrew Epstein
debate issues
of authorship & attribution
on John Latta’s blog
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Becoming Bernadette
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Interviews with 42 poet-songwriters
including
Jake Berry, Adam Fieled, Jack Foley,
Jennifer John, Grace Read,
Michael Rothenberg, Kate Rusby,
Chris Stroffolino, Linda Thompson,
Richard Thompson, Andy Gricevich
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The 1970s Conference
marathon report
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Rereading the Allen anthology
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Elizabeth Bartlett has died
As has G.E. Murray
&, in Chicago, Mark Perlberg
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DC authors’ houses
from Sterling A. Brown to Tim Dlugos
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Tom Beckett reading The Grand Piano
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A profile of Open Books
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Flood damage at
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The latest death-of-a-bookstore tale
comes from Grayslake,
The Strand is closing its
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In DC, Olsson’s files Chapter 11
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Ray Bradbury fights to save
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In
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Saving De Lauer’s
(because I too worked for a real estate title firm
in downtown
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Greenblatt’s Macbeth
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In praise of soft surrealism
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Remembering Ann Darr
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Lytle Shaw on Baraka’s Newark
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Krushcheva’s Nabokov
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Revell’s Rimaud (the video)
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Joaquin Miller
& the DC poetry scene of the 1880s
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Flarf vs. conceptual:
are you accessible?
“an easy retreat into the academic bosom”
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An annotated reading list:
Berkson, Durand, Friedlander, Oppen, Powys
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Jim Morrison & beatnik poets
in
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Robert Creeley on Wordplay
Sound shapes in a Creeley poem
But surely is heard the discouraging word
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Giving up poetry
(maybe it’s because Harvard & Yale
have such dreadful literature programs)
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Nerys Williams’ Reading Error
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Remembering Owen Dodson
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Billy Collins lists his influences
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What is a failed poet ?
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Talking with Neil Rollinson
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Jack Foley on Frank Samperi
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Donne scholar down under
combines children’s fiction & poetry
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The Guardian goes Oulipo
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Arielle Greenberg on the “Gurlesque”
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Is Lev Rubenstein
the Russian Bob Grenier?
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A profile of Gwendolyn Bennett
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Mark Wallace on metapoetics
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Rupture & the avant-garde
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Excerpts from Jim Liddy’s autobiography
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Talking with Suy Vansak
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Remembering John “Gunboat” Pauker
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If only Supreme Court justices could read
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Bob Dylan & rock ‘n’ roll
as legal precedent
Germaine Greer
despising Dylan
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In Seattle,
arts grants for 38
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Recalling Gabrielle Edgcomb
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Atwood wins
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In Cardiff,
announcing contest winners
with a certain nautical flair
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An introduction to language poetry
(in Dutch)
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goes to Mahmoud Darwish
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You can save $25
by registering for
the NYC Poets Forum now
(it’ll be the first big event
after we actually know
who will be the next president)
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The obsessive John Keats
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In New Zealand,
celebrate “Montana Poetry Day”
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Mary Karr on Miroslav Holub
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An “explosion of poetry” in
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On
Neil Ray runs the open mic
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“between the beauty of math
& the beauty of poetry”
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Talking with Children’s Laureate
Ifor ap Glyn
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Norbert Krapf
is the new
Indiana State Laureate
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Assessing Ambrose Bierce
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Cowboy poetry “in the classic tradition
of Louis L’Amour”
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Poetry & nationalism in Yemen
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Fingering digital humanities
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Pablo Neruda’s The Hands of Day
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Rushdie’s “stew”
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Reclaiming
Leon-Gontran Damas
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J.K. Rowling at Harvard
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Visualizing Big Data
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Why have we forgotten Edward Thomas?
(hint: it’s the writing)
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Ellen Doré Watson comes to Haverford
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The first woman
to have her play performed
on the main stage
of the National Theatre
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The future of publishing:
mulch
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Mary Beard, laughing
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E.L. Doctorow’s “The White Whale”
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Switching languages can change
your personality
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CrossCheck
seeks to catch academic plagiarizers
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A defense of elitism
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Which way feminism?
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Tiny (& predictable) ideas on Big Think
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Why journalists need
to understand blogging
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Who owns downloaded music ?
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Fuel costs killing indie band tours
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Georgia O’Keefe onstage
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Another Jackson Pollock mess
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Olafur Eliasson’s NYC waterfalls
Temporary Niagra
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A brutalism renaissance?
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Cinema’s art houses are empty
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Music critics start to disappear
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And the most exciting rock lyricist is….
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“We’re the party of the arts,”
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In
a progressive candidate
who actually understands
the arts
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& a tip of the hat
to the Beltway Poetry Quarterly
for so many excellent links
from its “DC forebears” issue
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