Saturday, October 03, 2009
Friday, October 02, 2009
Gray Area
defines new age
of art + technology
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The Gray Area
Foundation for the Arts
officially opens today
55 Taylor Street, SF
(between Market & Turk)
Ribbon Cutting: 5:00-6:00 PM
Reception: 6:00-10:00 PM
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Labels: Events, Tenderloin, Visual Arts
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
Recently Received
Books (Poetry)
Joel Bettridge, Presocratic Blues, Chax, Tucson 2009
Mark Bibbins, The Dance of No Hard Feelings, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend 2009
Gillian Conoley, The Plot Genie, Omnidawn, Richmond 2009
Jacque Vaught Brogan, Ta(l)king Eyes, Chax, Tucson 2009
Cathy Eisenhower, Clearing Without Reversal, Edge Books, Washington DC 2009
Gillian Jerome, Red Nest, Nightwood Editions, Gibsons, BC 2009
Florence Kindel, Dissolutions, Green Zone, Brooklyn 2009
Nicholas Manning, Hi Higher Hyperbole, Ypolita Press, San Francisco 2009
Chris Nealon, Plummet, Edge Books, Washington, DC 2009
Mel Nichols, Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon, Edge Books, Washington, DC 2009
Bin Ramke, Theory of Mind: New & Selected Poems, Omnidawn, Richmond 2009
Catie Rosemurgy, The Stranger Manual, Graywolf Press, Minneapolis 2010
Matina Stamatakis, Metempsychose, Ypolita Press, San Francisco 2009
Michelle Taransky, Barn Burned, Then, Omnidawn, Richmond 2009
Matthew Thorburn, Disappears in the Rain, Parlor City Press, Vestal, NY 2009
Charles Harper Webb, Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems, University of Pitts burgh Press, Pittsburgh 2009
Books (Other)
Cara Benson, editor, Predictions, Chain / Links, Oakland & Philadelphia 2009. Includes Paul Raskin, Bart Bridger Woodstrup, Julie Sadler, David Zuzga,Jason Zuzga, Mónica de la Torre
Jean Daive, Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan, translated from the French by Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck, Providence 2009
Robert Kelly, Cities, Frontier Press, West Newbury, MA 1971
Gherasim Luca, Inventor of Love & Other Writings, translated from the Romanian by Julian & Laura Semilian, introduction by Andrei Codrescu, essay by Petre Răileanu, Black Widow Press, Boston 2009
The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection, Semiotext(e), Los Angeles 2009
Journals
Cannot Exist, no. 5, Madison, Summer 2009. Includes Nathan Austin, Laura Carter, Kristen Gallagher, Derek Henderson, Tom Hibbard, Brenda Iijima, Paul Foster Johnson, Andrew Levy, Chris Mercer, Chuck Stebelton, Steve Timm & Steve Dalachinsky
Ecopoetics no. 6/7, Bowdoinham, MA, 2006-2009. Includes Emily Abendroth, Fatho Amoy, mIEKAL aND, Kristen Andersen, Karen Leona Anderson, Stan Apps, Robert Ashton, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Christine Boileau, Timothy Bradford, Pam Brown, Julieann Brownton, James Bunn, Andrew Burke, Bonny Cassidy, Louise Crisp, Justin Clemens, Jon Cone, Jack Collom, Matthew Cooperman, Gregory Day, Tyler Doherty, Thom Donovan, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Theodore Enslin, John Estes, Kate Fagan, Michael Farrell, Alec Finlay, Lisa Fishman, Benjamin Friedlander, Forrest Gander, Jody Gladding, Liberty Heise, Krista Ingebretson, Jill Jones, Patrick Jones, Michael Kelleher, John Kinsella, Kyhl Lyndgaard, James Koller, José Martí, John McBain, Ray Meeks, Graeme Miles, Stuart Mills, Peter Minter, Luis-Aguilar Moreno, Derek Motion, Jesse Nissim, Alistair Noon, Lucas North, Antonio Ochoa, Peter O’Mara, Isabelle Pelissier, Carol Quinn, José Rabéarivelo, Daniel W. Rasmus, Joan Retallack, Sarah Rosenthal, Linda Russo, Kate Schapira, Andrew Schelling, Jared Schickling, Jonathan Skinner, Gary Snyder, Juliana Spahr, James Stuart, Alf Taylor, Angélica Tornero, Rodrigo Toscano, Lauren Tyers, Erica Van Horn, Stephen Vincent, Damian Weber, Simon West, Les Wicks
Invisible Ear, no. 4, Northampton, MA, July 2009. Includes David Bartone & Jeff Downey, Eric Baus, Luke Bloomfield, Francesca Chabrier, Phil Cordelli, Loren Goodman, Kim Hagerich, Hailey Higdon, Brian Mihok, and Michelle Taransky.
Work, no. 10, Oakland, no date (2008 or 2009). Includes Charles Bernstein, Lindsey Boldt, Nico Vassilakis, Angela
Genusa
Work, no. 12, Oakland, no date (but 2009). Includes Stan Apps, Shin Yu Pai, David Harrison Horton, Matthew Lusk
Still a big stack of books
waiting to be noted here
Labels: Recently Received
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
At UC Santa Cruz,
the occupation picks up steam
“Push the university to its limits”
Local NBC news coverage
Santa Cruz students refusing
to end occupation
Labels: Politics
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Poets House is open!
“a lot of people whose work I can’t even read
but I’m glad they’re there”
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Monkeys' Moon,
a film collaboration by H.D., Bryher
& directed by Kenneth Macpherson
Richard Deming on Monkeys' Moon
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Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism
Laura Hinton blogs
the Opening night plenaries
Performances by
Sally Silvers & Carla Harryman & friends
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NPR talks to Joshua Clover
about the UC walkout
Santa Cruz students blockade Commons
2 UC Berkeley administrators
propose a federal bailout
for public universities
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This is Banned Books Week
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The last flight of Jim Carroll
Eileen Myles on Jim Carroll
Patti Smith on Carroll
Travis Nichols,
scanning Carroll’s obits
Tom Clark,
an elegy perhaps
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Harryette Mullen reads Bob Kaufman
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Rae Armantrout’s Next Life
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Steve Vincent
on Brandon Brown & David Larsen
@ Small Press Traffic
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David Perry on
Sawako Nakayasu’s
Hurry Home Honey: Love Poems 1994-2004
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Seeing & the image in Ann Lauterbach
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Will Alexander’s
The Sri Lankan Loxodrome
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The little magazine in Canada,
1925-1980
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Filipino American Poetas en San Francisco
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Toward a history of
Los Angeles poetry
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Robert Kelly & Clayton Eshleman,
reading at St. Marks
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A Bei Dao portfolio
translated by Eshleman & Lucas Klein
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Not “what is poetry?” but
“what is the sentence?”
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Chanting for Sadc:
a poetry festival in Namibia
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What’s worse than a poet?
Two poets!
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The American Bookbinder’s Museum
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Luis Sagasti on
“Poetry & Innocence”
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Andalus:
a press on the Israel/Palestine divide
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Borges & the birth of haiku
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Was Michael Donaghy an Irish poet?
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Isaac Rosenberg’s Night and Day
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Anne Waldman in Nebraska
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Where statisticians turn to poetry
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Mama Dada:
Songs of the Baroness’s Dog
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On Trevor Winkfield & John Ashbery
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Food, body, politics
@ Small Press Traffic
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Fonetic Speling vs. Shakespeare
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Amy Gerstler:
poetry doesn’t hurt
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The poetry of Avot Yeshurun
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Edward Hirsch reads
Jason Shinder’s “Eternity”
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Whitman lobbies for tax help
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Biggest Poe show is a go in Austin
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Reading The Flood
but no fan of the post-apocalypse
Atwood’s humor
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Remembering Richard Brautigan
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Kate Greenstreet’s
reading tour
would wear out Bob Dylan
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Or just Christmas cheer?
Did Joe Wilson shout “Judas” at Dylan?
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Bookies bet on Oz for Nobel
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Taking William Carlos Williams’
“the perfection of new forms as additions to nature”
to the next level
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Garrison Keillor:
My Great Escape
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
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Talking with E.L. Doctorow
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What is
“the great Indian novel”?
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TriQuarterly moves online
sans its editors
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“Staring at textpo
creates the potential
for vispo”
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Lacan:
The Insistence of the Letter
in the Unconscious
(reg. req.)
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Joel Brouwer
on Juliana Spahr in Tuscaloosa
& the meaning of place
Rebecca Wolff:
what means place?
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Talking with Vernon Frazer
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Wanting Carver to win
Talking with Tess Gallagher
Is Carver just a fiction by Lish?
Carver, the naturist
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Releasing the novel as a podcast
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Jeffrey Cyphers Wright on
Rachel Loden’s Dick of the Dead
Philip Metres on Loden’s
“The Toy Box of my Intentions”
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Art, genius, capitalism,
outsourcing,
Jed Rasula & Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson’s Day
with Kenny Goldsmith
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A belated !?!
for National Punctuation Day
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Recordings of the 2008 season
of Poems & Pints
include Katy Lederer, Matthew Zapruder,
Sharon Olds, Paul Muldoon & more
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Raúl R. Salinas:
Indio Trails:
A Xicano Odyssey
Through Indian Country
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“Best” fiction of this millennium
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The most influential over the past 25 years?
100 Years of Solitude
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Jonathan Lethem:
between the novel & its publication
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Samuel Johnson, anti-American
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A selection of work from David Wolach
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James Wright, unsmudged
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The Queen Mum & Ted Hughes
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Wendell Berry:
“A Speech to the Garden Club of America:
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Britain’s Quietists go green:
Carol Ann Duffy
Alice Oswald
Andrew Motion
Kathleen Jamie
Carol Rumens
John Harley Williams
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Jane Austen is the focus
at the Morgan Library in NYC
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Paris court to hear Google © case
US ruling delayed to October 7
Harold Bloom (& Arlo Guthrie) vs. Google
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Scribd sued over ©
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Another win for QWERTY
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The fast-growing market of e-book readers
Inching closer to a ubiquitous e-reader platform
British troops snap up e-book readers
British librarians desperate for e-books
Amazon delaying public domain works
on Kindle
Dan Brown’s e-book sales turn out to be
not so special
E-books provide retailers with new sales opportunities
Booksellers unfazed by e-books
China Mobile
to lauch e-book service
Barnes & Noble files e-book plans with FCC
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Time Warner
looks to dump magazines
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Before choosing the e-book,
ponder the format
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Carol Peters’ Sixty Some
comes in at least 5
different formats
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Scanning 55 reviews
of the Keats flick
A positive review
from a critic who
“doesn’t get poetry”
“Keats started coughing
much too early…”
“Bright Star shines brightly…”
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Selling Byron’s letters
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Catalina Cariaga:
Cultural Evidence
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SF Chronicle adopts
the indie best seller list
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Pennsylvania’s
“solution” to budget woes –
tax the arts!
Unfair! cries The Inky
Art groups howl
Does Harrisburg
need the arts?
In Pittsburgh,
Michelle Obama promotes the arts
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The good news
is that Philly libraries
won’t be shut down
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Eileen Myles: “My Man”
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Kenmore:
Poem Unlimited
(or at least one facet
of this very large-scale project)
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Ballard, the master
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Darwinian Explanations
for the Origin of Language
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Gertrude Stein:
“Composition as Explanation”
(reg. req.)
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“I celebrate Myself,”
the interview
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The other Anne Sexton
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Still reading Fitzgerald & Hemingway
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New Yorker blogging
its archives
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Heather McHugh,
Edwidge Danticat, Deborah Eisenberg
& Rackstraw Downes
win MacArthurs
Heather McHugh on PBS
Newshour’s video archives
The MacArthurs look backwards
in the arts
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Ken Tucker:
“Sonnets, vomit & Mad Men”
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Erotic Emissions in Greek Poetry
(reg. req.)
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Scrabble tricks
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Joel Brouwer: types of knowledge
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Experiments & Disorders:
New Poetic Forms
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Barahmasa: Song of Twelve Months
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When (and why) books are embargoed
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E.B. Bortz
“on the loose” at G-20
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Faber turns 80
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Edmund White’s Rimbaud
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Frances Chung:
Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple
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“the smaller the ball
the better the book”
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Rightwing language maven
William Safire has died
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Revisiting Richard Ford
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Why hasn’t sci-fi
ever won a Booker?
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The roots of John Cheever
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Judging a suspect by their books
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James Ellroy’s
“dirty secrets”
Ellroy on women
“Rewriting History is a Gas”
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Talking with Lorrie Moore
Moore on Clarice Lispector
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Talking with Richard Wilbur
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Meeting Sherlock Holmes
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Michael Wood:
Be careful what you wish for
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Roman Polanski
arrested in Zurich
Busted for 1977 rape case
involving a 13-year-old
The first of the carnival court cases
His life in photos
Extradition
could take months
Anger at arrest in France & Poland
Could this be the path to freedom?
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Prepare now
for Anthony Braxton’s
8-hour
Sonic Genome Project
next January in Vancouver
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Talking with Tyondai Braxton
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A profile of Sonny Rollins
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Pearl Jam’s Backspacer –
spiritual truths
for aging Gen Xers
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George Pringle –
the “posh electro poet”
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A bicycle militant reads David Byrne
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Six months of jail time
for graffiti
in Boston
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Yosi Sergant resigns from the NEA
What hath Sergant’s blunder wrought?
And how sincere are Beck et al?
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Barry Schwabsky on
Jack Tworkov’s lost illusions
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Emile Norman has died
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Gold Leaf Studios
in Washington, DC
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Leaving Derrida behind
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Top Ten
Slavoj Žižek video moments
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State of the Blogosphere
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