Saturday, April 04, 2009
Jennifer Bartlett & Ron Silliman
TODAY, April 4
4:00 to 6:00 PM
At the Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery,
just North of
(F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker )
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Friday, April 03, 2009
The forthcoming addition to Lisa Jarnot’s family has told her to lie down & chill, so she will not be at the Bowery Poetry Club on Saturday. Happily, Jennifer Bartlett has come to the rescue and will be reading with me tomorrow. You can read interviews with Jennifer here & here. And you can buy Derivative of the Moving Image here. Or read a review here.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Jonathan Mayhew’s
Apocryphal Lorca
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Modernism is 100 years old
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Language poets
are not superheroes,
we just seem that way
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Geof Huth is ironic
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Geof & I
will both be part
of this year’s
Text Festival,
in
in May
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Journal of British
& Irish
Innovative Poetry
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Aram Saroyan’s
uncollected
minimal poems
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Cole Swensen’s Ours
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Sunday, April 5:
SPD’s 40th Anniversary
Poetry Blow-Out!
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Sean Bonney, Redell
Olsen
& many more
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A tribute to Jack Gilbert
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PBS to air
Polis is This:
Charles Olson
& the Persistence of Place
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Palestinian poetry:
“The
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The Fab Five:
Dodie Bellamy, Roberto Bedoya,
Blossom Dearie & Dusty Springfield,
plus of course
Dario Robleto
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Kay Ryan on PBS NewsHour
It’s not all “unicorns and flowers” with Kay
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Remembering Lisa Ratcliffe
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Dodie Bellamy has
archive fever
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Reading report:
a festival of contemporary immigration writing
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The Consumer Products Safety Commission
bans all books
published before 1984
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Reading report:
K. Silem Mohammad & Paul Stephens
at Bard
with lots of video samples
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Flarf & the poetics
of the Goon Show
LOL: a flarfy word
“Flarf should not exist”
Flarf: “a secret handshake”
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Frank O’Hara
turned 83 last week
O’Hara didn’t know
his birthday was March 27
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Sina Queyras
on Emily Carr
on Mary Ruefle
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What do you look for
in poetry?
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The Bedford Poets
of Minneapolis-St. Paul
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Seth Abramson
is more concerned
with the characterization of Quiet
than with a pragmatic history
of the phenomenon
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Talking with Howard Junker
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A new kind of poetry
demands a new kind of critic
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Habib Tengour
at SUNY
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Happy 90th, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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A profile of Dunya Mikhail
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There goes Small Press Book Month
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Anne Charnock, “Uncertainty Series, no. 10” (PDF)
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Books on the Nightstand podcast:
Michael Schiavo
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Rupert Loydell’s
“A Few Thoughts About Blogging”
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Michelle Naka Pierce’s
10 Good Reads
10 good books by people she knows
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Rattle e.6 (PDF)
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“the smell of formaldehyde in the morning”
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The Benedictine monk
who counted
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & William Burroughs
among his correspondents
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Jeff Hansen’s
series on Nate Mackey’s
Songs of the Andoumboulou
is a wonderful examination
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Walter Mosley:
from Easy to Leonid
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Menachem Begin & the poet
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Once a pun a time
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Poetry & inspiration
(in Italian)
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Neruda’s World’s End
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Cecile Franking Wu has died
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Going after that old left-winger,
John Ashbery
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Remembering Michael Donaghy
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Seamus Heaney: the early years
An extended (and annotated)
version of
“The Dissembling Poet:
Seamus Heaney and the Avant-Garde”
Check out all the responses thus far
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from a laureate than it got from
Andrew Motion
Motion appears to have
hated the job
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Christopher James
wins the “
of UK Quietude
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Charlotte Currier’s “poem-box”
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A rare far-from-Shepherdstown W. VA
reading for Georgia Lee McElhaney
April 1 in
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Avi Sharon
wins the Harold Morton Landon
Translation Award
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PEN
World Voices
Festival of International Literature
NYC, April 27 – May 3
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Obama quotes the poet Saadi
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Leonard Schwartz:
“The New
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Fady Joudah’s
The Earth in the Attic
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Updike’s
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Brad Leithauser on Anne Carson’s
An Orestia
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Cheever’s bio
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A bio of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The New Yorker reviews
Beckett’s life in letters
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Talking with Orhan Pamuk’s translator
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Jill Bialosky’s Intruder
& an interview
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Northern California Book Award
short lists
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What blurbs don’t tell you
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42 of the “20 books”
that caused Michael Lally
to fall for poetry
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“the real language of men”
& other fictions
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Frederick Seidel’s Poems: 1959-2009
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Fiction thrives when times are bad
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Joyce Carol Oates
on Flannery O’Connor
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Fictioning Frost
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Did Sylvia Plath
kill her son?
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The next fiction class I teach
will require students
to work only in forms
of 140 characters or less
Ben Okri
is using Twitter
for his poetry
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Five things to look for
in a Quietist poem
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Horrors!
Poets writing in prose
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Michael Collier on his poem
“An Individual History”
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“Holler Poets don’t shout”
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A profile of Mary Jo Bang
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A little travel
to get through a writer’s block
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Stephen Berlin Johnson:
“Old Growth Media
& the Future of News”
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The single best news source
on the collapse of traditional media
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Ann Arbor’s daily dies
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Ads in the NY Times Book Review dwindle
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How Kindle changes the world
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Transforming the “UX” of libraries
A blog for public libraries
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Court orders
stolen book returned
60 years later
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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore
lies in Chappaqua, NY
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The last defense against
political corruption
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Kindle & the problems
of ownership vs. access
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Impact of the recession
on the most successful
retail bookstore in the USA
How the indies are faring
in
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“Somewhere up in poet heaven,
Roque Dalton is a happy man”
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Christian Book Expo flops
An insider’s view of why
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The fate of the humanities article
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The artist as critic,
the critic as artist
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Watching Ian McKellen
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Don’t blame the recession
for an arts crisis
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Could street art rescue the world?
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Among Bernie Madoff’s victims:
Arakawa & Madeline Gins
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The Bernie Madoff of art dealers
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Zoe Strauss’
annual I-95 show
will be May 3rd
Front & Mifflin Streets
right here in
Phil-EYE-delphia
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An alternative Turner shortlist
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Mira Schor at Momenta
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Jackson Pollock’s
family’s Depression letters
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Lawrence Weschler’s conversations
with Robert Irwin & David Hockney
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‘Tis it a crime
to paint the Taoiseach naked?
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Picasso, old
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Galaxy in
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The future of the true Barnes Foundation
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“New York is surface”
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Architects take up Lego challenge
(Legos do poetry too)
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Julie Dill
blogs the SLSO
at Carnegie Hall
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ARG’s Animali –
an Ashbery for the ear?
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Yet another genre
for Wynton Marsalis to muck up
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The Decembrists’ Hazards of Love
is here
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SF Dance Award
goes to trapeze artist
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New York Times
on Sally Silvers
And another
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The brouhaha over
Battlestar Galactica
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Are computer games literature?
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Archie Green,
one of the giants of folklore,
has died
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“The humanities have no purpose”
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As has
John Hope Franklin
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“The Black Studies Intelligentsia Crowd”
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
1923 & 1970
There you have it. The ampersand is Harvey Brown’s intervention, and you can see immediately why it seems like such an integral part of that edition. Since it was the 1970 edition, not the original publication, that had the lasting impact on at least my generation of poets, I believe that I shall continue to use the ampersand when writing about the book generally, but will use “and” henceforth to distinguish the earlier edition.
Labels: William Carlos Williams
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