Friday, February 20, 2009
Juliana Spahr:
“The Incinerator”
Lana Turner,
new kid on the block
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An 11-year-old poet
takes on the Taliban
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A new chapter for Robin’s Books
In Madison, bookstores fight back
In
A campaign in Shorewood, WI to
have the city buy the bookstore
Used bookstores carry on
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Kit Robinson’s Messianic Trees
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis
introduces The Alphabet
(MP3)
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Why hasn’t John Ashbery
ever received
the National Medal for the Arts?
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Poets in Kenya
have discovered blogging
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A profile of Richard Deming
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Dubai bans an author
Atwood boycotts
An interview with Ali Al Sha’ali
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Writer stabbed at reading in
More questions than answers
in the stabbing of
Xu Lai
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Nikki Giovanni on Bill Moyers’ Journal
A mellower Giovanni
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Kenneth Irby’s Studies:
Cuts, Shots, Takes
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Jean Vengua’s Prau
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Laura Moriarty’s account
of the AWP
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Strange bedfellows in
American Hybrid
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Alex Davies
on naming & categories
in poetry
(PDF)
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Dan Wilcox
on chapbooks
in the
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Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov
& the war now
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Videos from John Ashbery,
Michael Palmer & Fanny Howe
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Poems for the Millennium: Vol. 3
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The economics of Poetry
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Mae Winkler Goodman Samuel has died
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Philip K. Dick’s last novel
will be self-published
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The cancer cluster
in the UCSD lit program
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Finally!
A serious biography of
William Carlos Williams
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A graphic history of the Beats
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What writers earn, on average, in the
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Can a failed state
lead the world’s literature?
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National Poetry Day in
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Salman Rushdie:
the fatwa at 20
Is it possible yet
to discuss the book?
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A profile of Hannah Zeavin
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“Poetry is the country music of literature” –
Gabe Gudding
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Amiri Baraka reads Charles Olson
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Suzi Gablik on her time at Black Mountain
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Pride and Prejudice
and 7-foot tall extraterrestrials
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The return of the “middle man”
to poetry
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A more-rare-than-rare
Larry Fagin reading
in
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What I’m On
by
Luis Humberto Valadez
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A poets’ café
with a hip-hop twist
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Talking with April Ossmann
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A profile of Ibukun Babarinde
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Charles Bernstein has Class
(MP3 now in stereo)
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A profile of Matthew Carter
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Tracking the wild Barthelme
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Michael Kelleher on New York’s Grateful Dead
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In Idaho Falls,
no more Monday paper
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Reading The NY Times Book Review
for what really matters
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Newspapers as non-profits?
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Edward Upward has died at 105
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Close reading Donald Justice
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Twitter versions of classic lit
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Are university presses at risk?
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Trusting Tom Clark
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John Olivares Espinoza’s The Date Fruit Elegies
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Liquid poetry in
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A profile of Nina Nero
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31 translations of the same haiku
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Off to a slow start,
first-time author
finds a bidding war at 70
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Sharing a birthday –
Audre Lorde & Yoko Ono
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Stanley Fish:
Do academics deserve free speech?
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Librarians’ jobs
are being transformed
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Trying hard to not rob the library
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Talking with Armistead Maupin
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Jack Micheline, One of A Kind
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Lewis Turco on
Robert Bly’s pink fog
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David Giannini’s A Z Two
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Alfred Knopf is dead
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Remembering Carol Houck Smith
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Betjeman goes to
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Galway Kinnell at
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Howl
for Lindsay Lohan
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Wendy Cope’s writing room
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Here comes Tolkien’s juvenilia
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The consumerization of art
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Futurism arrives at last
at MoMA
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ICA has all the dirt
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In
surrealism 2.0
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What photographers hate
Creative Commons
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An intriguing question:
what is Philippe Petit’s
status as art
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Ellen Fullman
keeps stringing us along
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SF Blues Festival canceled
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You can stick a fork in Muzak
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Just how have The Nation’s
reviewers judged
Oscar-winning films
over the years?
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The latest anti-regulation hype
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Recently Received
Books (Poetry)
Kristin Bock, Cloisters,
Rob Budde, Indices, Wink Books,
Rob Budde, Poem’s Poem, Wink Books,
Mary Burger, A Partial Handbook for Navigators, Interbirth Books, Dallas 2008
Joel Chace, Scaffold, Country Valley Press,
Jessica Dessner, Wit’s End with Bric-a-Brac, Green Zone, Brooklyn 2006
Jennifer Firestone, Holiday, Shearsman Books, Exeter 2008
Tiziano Fratus, A Room in Jerusalem, translated by Gail McDowell, Farfalla Press / McMiellan & Parrish, New York 2008
C.S. Giscombe, Prairie Style, Dalkey Archive,
Sylvia Gorelick, Seven Poems for Bill Berkson, Kostro Editions, New York 2009
Barbara Hanby, All-Night Lingo Tango,
Roberto Harrison, Reflector, House Press,
David Hadbawnik, Ovid in Exile, Interbirth Books, Dallas 2008
Paul Hegedus, In Stereo, BookThug, Toronto 2008
Franck André Jamme, New Exercises, translated by Charles Borkhuis, Wave Books,
Erica Kaufman, Censory Impulse, Farfalla Press /
Matthew Klane, B______ Meditations,
David Lau, Virgil and the Mountain Cat,
Pascalle Monnier, Bayart, translated by Cole Swensen, Black Square Editions, New York 2002
Idra Novey, The Next Country, Alice James Books,
Peter Oresick, Warhol-O-Rama, Carnegie Mellon UP, Pittsburgh 2008
Eugene Ostashevsky, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn 2008
Christopher William Purdom, Corporate Geese, Volume V, 226 Press, Philadelphia 2008
Philip Quinn, The SubWay, BookThug, Toronto 2008
Pierre Reverdy, Haunted House, translated by John Ashbery, Brooklyn Rail / Black Square, New York 2007
Pierre Reverdy, Prose Poems, translated by Ron Padgett, Brooklyn Rail / Black Square, New York 2007
Carey Salerno, Shelter, Alice James Books,
Steve D. Schroeder, Torched Verse Ends, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2009
Barry Schwabsky, Book Left Open in the Rain,
Michael Slosek, A Sequence for Cinematic History, House Press,
Nomi Stone, Stranger’s Notebook, Triquarterly Books / Northwestern,
Eileen R. Tabios, Nota Bene Eiswein, Ahadada,
William Wroth, All Worlds in One, Coyote’s Journal,
Books (Poetry Anthologies)
C. Cleo Creech, Outside the Green Zone: Poets Respond to the GLBT Cleansing of Iraq, no publisher listed (but quite possibly Green Zone), no location (but possibly
Books (Other)
Amina Cain, I Go To Some Hollow, introduction by Bhanu Kapil, Les Figues Press, Los Angeles 2009
Renee Gladman, To After That (Toaf), Atelos, Berkeley 2008
Carla Harryman, Adorno’s Noise, Essay Press,
Rodrigo Toscano, Collapsible Poetics Theater, Fence Books,
John Yau, A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns, Distributed Art Publishers, New York 2008
Journals
Action Poétique, no. 194,
Court Green, no. 6,
Versal 4,
With + Stand, no. 2, no location given, Fall 2008. Includes Bill Friend, Noah Eli Gordon, Barry Schwabsky, Jen Hofer, Anne Boyer, Vivek Narayanan, more.
Other Formats, Other Media
Kaia Sand, Remember to Wave: A Poetry Walk, possibly Tangent Press,
Tuesday: an Art Project, 2:2 – third issue,
Still a big stack of books
waiting to be noted here
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