tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150647506604306922011-12-29T10:04:25.048-05:00Older lists of links from <a href="http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com">Silliman's Blog</a>Ronnoreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15064750660430692.post-11524582167726667202009-08-31T10:17:00.000-04:002010-05-04T10:18:13.049-04:00<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><img width=525 height=247 src=" http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2556/3870360363_87b18e55f6_o.jpg" alt><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.molleindustria.org/ergon_logos/ergon_logos.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ergon / Logos</span></a>:<br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>when is a game a poem?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/29/margaret-atwood-year-of-flood"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ursula K. Le Guin on Margaret Atwood</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Logan-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Louise Glück,</span></a><br><br />“stand-up vampire”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“keep the stakes …<br><br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-louise-gluck30-2009aug30,0,2236422.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>hypothermically low</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The private poetry of <a href="http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2009/08/glucks-private-party.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Louise Glück</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/FqqhS"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Glück</span></a> on danger &amp; difficulty<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAoxZXYuZvE"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Amrad &amp; Ted Joans</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bezoar.kahnplus.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bezoar,</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>a fine literary mag<br><br />that ran from 1975 thru 1981<br><br />is now online<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.kahnplus.com/ftp/bezoar/?s=Silliman"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>My four appearances</span></a> therein<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/readinginpublic/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reading in public</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Lethem-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jonathan Lethem</span></a> on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/books/28book.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lorrie Moore</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chapter 1 of <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/books/excerpt-gate-at-the-stairs.html?ref=review"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A Gate at the Stairs</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Has British poetry had any significance<br><br />since <a href="http://jeffrey-side.blogspot.com/2009/08/has-british-poetry-had-any-significance.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>William Wordsworth</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2009/08/william-bronk-and-wallace-stevens.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>William Bronk &amp; Wallace Stevens</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>James Longenbach on <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/longenbach"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wallace Stevens</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Olson on<br><br /><a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/08/norma-cole-joseph-ceravolo-clark.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Norma Cole, Joe Ceravolo &amp; Clark Coolidge</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Digging up <a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_421175.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Garcia Lorca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Mason-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roberto Bolaño’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Skating Rink<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20940"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lyn Hejinian</span></a><br><br />on poetry &amp; place<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2006/12/jackson-maclow.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jackson Mac Low</span></a> in San Diego<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Hawes-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>J.M.G. Le Clézio’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Desert<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The latest in <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2009/08/levi-straussace-hotel-collaborate-and-the-result-is-suite-.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Walt Whitman</span></a> marketing<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blogs.buffalonews.com/artsbeat/2009/08/juliana-spahr-awarded-folger-librarys-hardison-prize.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Juliana Spahr</span></a><br><br />has won the Hardison Prize<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4cBvflVfN8&amp;feature=player_embedded"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Franz Wright</span></a>, reading<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/14376/impromptu-fantasias/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Identity is partisanship</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.folsomfuneral.com/?p=776"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Barbara E. Johnson</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/us/30rondthaler.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Edward Ronthaler</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/us/30rondthalerbox.html?ref=us"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mi hart aeks</span></a>…”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The historic role of<br><br /><a href="http://sarojinisahoo.blogspot.com/2009/08/at-louvre-art-gallery-in-paris-this-is.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>gender in language</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Straight-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Where <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Hamlet </i>scores lower</span></a><br><br />than the Gossip Girls<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A really strange idea:<br><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/30reading.html?_r=1&amp;ref=global-home"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>read the books you like</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://brandonbrown.blogspot.com/2009/08/talking-points-1_26.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Catullus &amp; Quixote</span></a><br><br />as processed through Acker<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://brandonbrown.blogspot.com/2009/08/talking-points-1_27.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Language &amp; breath</span></a><br><br />in Acker, Kerouac,<br><br />Zukofsky &amp; Catullus<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-spontaneous.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>rhetorical breathing</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lowerhalf.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Lower Half</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://warriorwriters.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Warrior writers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>In defense of <a href="http://socialfiction.org/primatepoeticsmanifesto.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>primate poetics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://socialfiction.org/primatepoetics.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Primate Poetics</span></a>: the curriculum<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The lord of <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/30/william-golding-john-carey-review"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Lord of the Flies</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Some poems by <a href="http://www.thecafereview.com/?page_id=38"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Juan Gelman</span></a><br><br />from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.thecafereview.com/?cat=6"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Café Review’s</span></a><br><br /></i><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>issue devoted to his work<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A reading by <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/john-twelve-hawks-will-not-exactly-appear.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Twelve Hawkes</span></a> not<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Envisioning a scaled-down<br><br /><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6685324.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>publishing industry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.livemint.com/2009/07/10214032/Voices-in-verse.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Rapids of a Great River</span></a>:<br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2 millennia of Tamil poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/08/bird-effort-by-ronald-baatz-hot-august.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ronald Baatz’</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Bird Effort<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.runet.edu/~eurotrails/Coole_Park_2003/index.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The autograph tree</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2008/02/tyranny-of-mass-taste.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thom Gunn</span></a> &amp; the tyranny of mass taste<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Become a fan of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Richard-Caddel/133221375675?ref=3Dts"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Richard Caddell</span></a> on Facebook<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Listen to his poetry on <a href="http://www.myspace.com/richardcaddel"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>MySpace</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-e-l-doctorow30-2009aug30,0,596844.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Doctorow’s</span></a> Homer<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Who gets <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB125110938650753399-lMyQjAxMDI5NTIxNDEyMDQ5Wj.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>hurt</span></a><br><br />in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/08252009/business/rda_bankruptcy_may_clobber_bony_186395.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Readers Digest</span></a> </i>bankruptcy<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=2160"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mathias Énard’s</span></a> “Migration”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://loveyourcopyeditor.blogspot.com/2009/08/got-semicolon-aka-infinite-summer-week.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Semicolons &amp; class struggle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082801538.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rebecca Wolff</span></a> on the<br><br />“crypto-title poem” of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The King<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/08/12/pynchon-and-comics/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pynchon</span></a> &amp; the comics<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remembering <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/weekinreview/23star.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Richard Poirier</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.howlfestival.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Howl Festival 2009</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/08/clip_job_ginsbe_4.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Allen Ginsberg</span></a>, 1964:<br><br />time to legalize pot<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/pictures/2009/08/23/082309-680x239-LBroomview.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A Room with a View</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>in 3 panels<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooThirtysix/alexie.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sherman Alexie</span></a> discovers Fibonacci<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with Tess Gallagher<br><br />&amp; the editors of<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/LOA_interview_Gallagher_Stull_Carroll_on_Carver.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Raymond Carver: Collected Stories</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.biblio-india.org/showart.asp?inv=14&amp;mp=JA09"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Namdeo Desal</span></a>:<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poet of the Underworld<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/28/guardian-first-book-award-longlist"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Just one volume of poetry</span></a><br><br />in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Guardian’s </i>First Book “long” list<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-4715-North-American-Travel-Examiner~y2009m8d27-A-road-trip-through-literary-California"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A California literary roadtrip</span></a><br><br />for the obvious<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wikipedia</span></a> adds editorial review<br><br />on the living<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thegrammarvandal.wordpress.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Grammar Vandal</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/tagging/tag/wtf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Amazon WTF</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.biblio-india.org/showart.asp?inv=17&amp;mp=JA09"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>C.P. Surendran’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Portraits of the Space We Occupy<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“the natural utterance of <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-9150-Chicago-Poetry-Examiner~y2009m8d27-poetry-in-the-media-part-1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>living language</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://remarksinaminorkey.blogspot.com/2009/08/sonnet-anthology-poets-edward-hirsh-and.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hirsch &amp; Boland’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Making of a Sonnet<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/intelligence_agency/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sylvère Lotringer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3704/living-death"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Ricoeur’s</span></a> <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Living Up to Death<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/24/AR2009082403317.html?hpid=artslot"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jim Sanborn’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Terrestrial Physics<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/my_name_is_roger_and_im_an_alc.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roger Ebert:</span></a><br><br />30 years sober<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Language &amp; painting<br><br />in the work of<br><br /><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Pearson-Bruce/Pearson-Bruce_Conversation_Close-Listening_8-4-09.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bruce Pearson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://brucepearsonstudio.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pearson’s</span></a> studio online<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/7111"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Biennial or not biennial</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thomasdevaney.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-duchamps-etant-donnes-given-at-pma.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Duchamp’s door</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Artistic sovereignty <br><br />in the shadow of post-socialism:<br><br /><a href="http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/70"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Egypt’s 20^th annual youth salon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How many “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/weekinreview/23marsh.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>classic” photos</span></a><br><br />are fakes?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/08/21/ian-on-frank/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Frank’s</span></a> sweet sadness<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.njpartcenter.kr/ff.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nam June Paik Art Center</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The conspicuous absence of<br><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/24/AR2009082402900.html?hpid=sec-religion"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Maqbool Fida Husain</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.mfhussain.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Husain’s</span></a> website<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An <a href="http://mfhusainpaintings.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/mf-husains-paintings/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>anti-Husain</span></a> website<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._F._Husain"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Picasso of India</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/s_640364.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ed Piskor’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Wizzywig<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/08/22/2009-08-22_free_tin_tin.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Free <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Tin Tin</i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.towntopics.com/aug2609/book.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lester Young</span></a> at 100<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Prehistory of <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20090830_Blues__early_days__recorded_on_location.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the blues</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://eyeballkid.blogspot.com/2009/08/animated-egg-sausage.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Typographic</span></a> music video<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“How many roads?”<br><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/aug/25/bob-dylan-sat-nav"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dylan to voice GPS systems</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>And a <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/#/news/13125"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Christmas album</span></a>!?!<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/08/26/bob-dylans-christmas-album-artwork-unveiled/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>More</span></a> on the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=8419684"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>album</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://bit.ly/S7Au3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Twas the Night Before Christmas</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7689-the-social-history-of-the-mp3/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A social history of the MP3</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3703/three-logics-modernity"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Agnes Heller’s</span></a> “Three Logics of Modernity”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/28/RV9G19D16I.DTL&amp;type=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The polymath of the Palace</span></a><br><br />of Fine Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://flavorwire.com/35961/exclusive-decoding-the-numbers-in-eric-hansons-a-book-of-ages"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Life by the numbers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jul-aug/03-how-much-of-your-memory-is-true"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How much of your memory is true</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>7 points about the <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2009/08/hbc-90005599"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>CIA Report</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bird, bird, bird is the word</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15064750660430692-1152458216772666720?l=sillimanslinks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15064750660430692.post-77518002420479559812009-08-25T00:01:00.000-04:002010-05-04T10:16:28.132-04:00<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=8428"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=307 height=459 src="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/images/Languageforanewcentury.jpg"></span></a><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/language.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Language for a New Century</span></a>:<br><br />Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia &amp; <a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=8428"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Beyond</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.newletters.org/ontheair_rams/changv.wax"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Victoria Chang</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>vast</b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i>garland for <a href="http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/OPPEN.HTM"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>George Oppen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A great portrait<br><br />of <a href="http://www.sjphoto.com/ph_george_mary.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>George &amp; Mary</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://swoonrocket.blogspot.com/2009/08/panel-was-called-influence-and.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Juliana Spahr:</span></a><br><br />“Influence &amp; Originality”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/rothenberg.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jerry Rothenberg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/rothenberg.shtml#poetics"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Harry Polkinhorn</span></a> on 2 major Rothenberg projects<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>This year’s <a href="http://www.arts.gov/grants/recent/10grants/LitTranslation.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Literature Fellowships for Translation</span></a><br><br />from the National Endowment of the Arts<br><br />include Charlotte Mandell’s<br><br />translation of a 500-page sentence<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/mayer.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bernadette Mayer’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry State Forest<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A note on <a href="http://www.sibila.com.br/index.php/sibila-english/743-a-note-on-charles-olsons-the-kingfishers"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Olson’s</span></a><br><br />“The <a href="http://www.plu.edu/~jonesrp/doc/olson-kingfishers.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kingfishers</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Olson/08-16-63/Olson-Charles_50_Kingfishers_Vancouver_8-16-63.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Olson reading</span></a> the poem<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remembering <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/dame.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Enid Dame</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7239727@N02/sets/72157621935769959/show/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ashbery’s</span></a> bridge<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/spaces/msg/msg5.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>link to Ashbery</span></a> reading <a href="http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2009/08/crossing-john-ashberys-bridge.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the poem</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/ashbery/index.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ashbery’s</span></a> spaces<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sept. 8 at the Hammer<br><br />in Los Angeles:<br><br /><a href="http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/278"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rae Armantrout &amp; Rachel Loden</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A terrific bargain<br><br />on a great book<br><br />by <a href="http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2009/08/ms-cheap-date.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mark Scroggins on Louis Zukofsky</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/ontheroad.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>On the Road</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>again<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/kerouac.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kerouac’s daughter</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>More on <a href="http://thelesseroftwoequals.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/back-shelf-review-jan-kerouac/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jan Kerouac</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/8279/47:testset/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kerouac’s <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Book of Dreams</i></span></a><I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/08/poem-treats.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Adeena Karasick’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Amuse Bouche<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /> <br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Close reading aloud:<br><br /><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk/PoemTalk-21-Bernstein-In_a_Restless_World.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Bernstein’s</span></a><br><br />“In a Restless World Like This Is”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>September 10<br><br />in Montclair, NJ,<br><br /><a href="http://www.newband.org/events.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Café Buffé</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030906110053/www.slope.org/archive/issue15/index.phtml?url=echapbook"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Libretto</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/matson.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Clive Matson’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Mainline to the Heart<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.northshire.com/blog/?p=218"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ravi Shankar’s</span></a> life of rime<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112056039&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1003"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Driving while brown</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/tarn.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nathaniel Tarn’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6676829.html?industryid=47142"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Zucker</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dayton to honor<br><br /><a href="http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/dayton-may-honor-famous-lesbian-author-with-memorial-257064.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Natalie Barney</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>August 29, Pacifica, CA:<br><br />First Annual<br><br /><a href="http://www.shelldance.com/events.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shelldance Poetry, Music &amp; Art Festival</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Turning on <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/reed.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shakespeare</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2009/08/breathing-life-into-dead-poems.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Breathing life</span></a> into dead poems<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=44358"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Whitman’s war</span></a><br><br />visible in Memphis<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ntid.rit.edu/media/full_text.php?article_id=1007"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox</span></a> –<br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poetry in ASL<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>For <a href="http://fest.theskinny.co.uk/article/96872-carol-ann-duffy-business-as-usual"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Carol Ann Duffy</span></a>,<br><br />it’s business as usual<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The impact of her <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8205913.stm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>mother’s death</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Snediker on <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/lauterbach.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ann Lauterbach</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-08-19_119401881.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fernanda Pivano</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/going-highbrow-at-the-cia-11249"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Modernists at the CIA</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.oscholars.com/Latchkey/Who/NWwho.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Latchkey</span></a> –<br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>focusing on Victorian feminists<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://city-journal.org/2009/19_3_urb-zora-neale-hurston.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Zora Neale Hurston’s</span></a><br><br />challenges to the black community<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09228/990716-74.stm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Literature is good for you</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A contest that cites<br><br /><a href="http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090819/NEWS/90813107/1010/newsfront/Poetry+contest+announced"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Whitman, Williams &amp; Ginsberg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/romanianpoets.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Prose poets from Romania</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What becomes of <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/08/they-go-up-pretty-easy/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>your online data</span></a><br><br />when you die?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/26852872-8de2-11de-93df-00144feabdc0.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The city of books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/ive-seen-the-future-and-it-is-literate-1776194.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Buying books in LA</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Helen Vendler</span></a><br><br />on a selected Stevens<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14473"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Terrance Hayes</span></a> vs. Stevens<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/18925540/Stevens-Wallace-Poems-Anthology"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>42 pages</span></a> of Stevens’ poetry online<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/reines.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ariana Reines’</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Coeur de Lion<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/business/global/19adco.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Heathrow’s</span></a> writer in residence<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Scene report:<br><br /><a href="http://omnidawnblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bay-area-lit-scene-feature-3-pegasus.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pegasus Books</span></a> in Berkeley<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.blackocean.org/black-ocean-blog/2009/8/24/microreview-monday.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Siegell’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Jambandbootleg<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Considering <a href="http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2009/08/philip-larkin-some-personal.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Philip Larkin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/21/RV3M199IRB.DTL&amp;type=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Auggie Kleinzahler’s</span></a> <br><br />essays on music<br><br />are much like his poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://asitoughttobe.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/woodstock/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>George Evans</span></a><br><br />on Woodstock Vietnam<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp; on <a href="http://asitoughttobe.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/desert-winds/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Obama in Afghanistan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/atwood-promotes-new-book-via-live-theatre/article1254877/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Atwood</span></a> uses <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/19/margaret-atwood-emmerdale-tour"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>theater</span></a><br><br />to promote books<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/18/giant-knitted-poem"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How to knit a poem</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/08/rene-daumal-memorables.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>René Daumal’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Memorables<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/stine.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alison Stine’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ohio Violence<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2009/08/poetry-lives-it-thrives-it-has-purchase.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Instant dada</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-verse-revolutionaries-by-helen-carr-1771579.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Verse Revolutionaries</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/pages93/Surreal_Haiku.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Surreal haiku</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.cjr.org/second_read/the_greatest_liar_1.php?page=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nicholson Baker</span></a> on Defoe<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poets as <a href="http://woodyhaut.blogspot.com/2009/08/poets-who-wrote-crime-or-detective.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>crime novelists</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Kirn-t.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Drugs to do, cases to solve</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A new genre in <a href="http://www.pw.org/content/new_genre_chinese_fiction"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chinese fiction</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A third anthology of<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=33791"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Millions Poets</span></a></i><br><br />contestants<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Plus a <a href="http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=33750"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>magazine</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The meaning of<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?post=NaffisPoetsBlog"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Prince of Poets</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>On a haiku by<br><br /><a href="http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/216203/hay-naku-hayku"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Corazon Aquino</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.pw.org/files/imagecache/issue_cover/files/images/cover/2009septoct_web.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anselm Berrigan</span></a><br><br />on the cover of<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poets &amp; Writers</i><br><br />tho not online<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/anamorphosis-creeleyclemente-death-and-the-stuff-of-dreams/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Creeley’s</span></a> collaboration<br><br />with Francesco Clemente<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.2river.org/2RView/2_2/poems/anamorphosis.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>And more</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/news-and-features/features/movies/e3ib9d44f33bad88c089200b320dd99e108"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jane Campion’s</span></a> portrait of Keats<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23732974-details/yes-give-me-bad-writers-with-bad-lives/article.do"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Beatrix Potter</span></a>: mass murderer<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Buying &amp; selling <a href="http://www.bookride.com/2009/08/buying-and-selling-french-books.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>French books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university_diaries/richard_poirier_vaguely"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Richard Poirier:</span></a><br><br />in praise of the vague<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/carson.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anne Carson’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>An Oresteia<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Just <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2009/08/ask-a-book-question-74-just-one-book.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>one novel</span></a><br><br />to introduce the form<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A new <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/112433/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Koren Siddur</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Haiku &amp; Milosz<br><br />with <a href="http://catranslation.org/audio/robert-hass-haiku-czeslaw-milosz.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Hass</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/14/poster-poems-aubades"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Aubade</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/10teji"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Santa Cruz County</span></a> is seeking<br><br />applications for laureate<br><br />(deadline: September 1)<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-17/125040152877210.xml&amp;coll=5"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bucks County, PA,</span></a><br><br />is likewise searching<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/opinion/16heitman.html?bl&amp;ex=1250568000&amp;en=b4c154e09828e75c&amp;ei=5087%0A"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry &amp; the economic stimulus</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nonsitecollective.org/CAConrad/Soma%28tics%29"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>CA Conrad</span></a> on MACRO (Soma)tics<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x772307088/Prime-Time-Poet-CNN-ESPN-calling-as-Ridl-debuts-Losing-Season"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Ridl</span></a>, sports poet<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/14/emergency-poetry-relief"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Emergency poetry relief</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082002673_pf.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Melissa Kwasny</span></a> on<br><br />“Reading Novalis in Montana”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/15/hugo-williams-west-end-final"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hugo Williams’</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>West End Final<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How the <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/a-librarys-approach-to-books-that-offend/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brooklyn Public Library</span></a><br><br />deals with<br><br />books that offend<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reading <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=220786"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Darwish</span></a> in Ramallah<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/21/dan-brown-oxfam-most-donated-books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Guess whose books</span></a><br><br />are donated most often<br><br />to Oxfam charity shops?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/pages93/Mishima_Yukio_Haiku.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mishima &amp; haiku</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The poems of <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jeMs99f4ogQMYtyRsXJ7vPRlrglwD9A4N3KG1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shimon Peres</span></a><br><br />set to music<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A profile of <a href="http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/12168/Tom_Goff_Poet_of_the_week"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tom Goff</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2009/08/norman-finkelstein-scribe.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Norman Finkelstein’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Scribe<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iLu3F0KP1RKg2j_n9fy9NbqjZlOA"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Persepolis 2.0 –</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Iranian election<br><br />&amp; its aftermath<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.pw.org/content/agents_editors_qampa_agent_georges_borchardt"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Georges Borchardt</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.kolkatamirror.com/index.aspx?page=article&amp;sectid=34&amp;contentid=200908212009082117300315e7ebc4f9&amp;sectxslt="><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bengali book launch</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brad Leithauser on<br><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/18/AR2009081803150.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Campbell McGrath</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/anotherthing/464502/perils_of_the_poetry_reading"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Katha Pollitt:</span></a><br><br />perils of the poetry reading<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/14/fiction-roddydoyle"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roddy Doyle &amp; James Joyce</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/08/19/german-poet039s-anthology-launched-bali.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Enzenberger</span></a> in Bali<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A profile of<br><br /><a href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_features?id=161520720"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roger Bonair-Agard</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/chennai/Tamil-poems-find-an-English-audience/articleshow/4920825.cms"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A poetry festival in <a href="http://www.mrt.com.mk/en/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=6764&amp;Itemid=34"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Macedonia</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Life at the <a href="http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/15/poets-say-bench-has-value-goes-far-beyond-words/?metro&amp;zIndex=149881"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poetry bench</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/22/poetry-roger-mcgough"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roger McGough</span></a><br><br />&amp; the Mersey sound<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A profile of <a href="http://www.thesomervillenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&amp;SubSectionID=4&amp;ArticleID=1933&amp;TM=21899"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Zvi Sesling</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2 books by<br><br /><a href="http://thesop.org/poetry/2009/08/18/poets-more-informative-than-anchormen"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Barbara Louise Ungar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/19/harm-bad-book-cover"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Twilight’s </span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;font-style:normal'>Bella</span></a></i><br><br />“Oprah for teens”?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/collected-poems-by--michael-donaghy-1773371.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Donaghy’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Collected Poems<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=7579#more-7579"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>great creative writing teacher</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The end of Proust’s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>belle époque:<br><br /></i><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/5990595/Paulette-Howard-Johnston.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paulette Howard-Johnston</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/14/nicholson-baker-anthologist"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nicholson Baker’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Anthologist<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/weekinreview/16mcgrath.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Unauthorized sequels</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2223495/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fahrenheit 451: the Comic</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.pw.org/content/written_image_fahrenheit_451"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A taste thereof</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/3GfGvi"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Geri Chavis &amp; poetry therapy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.pw.org/content/world%E2%80%99s_largest_thesaurus_published"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thesaurus Rex</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Google rivals oppose <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/technology/internet/21google.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>book deal</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/guild-responds-to-second-wme-letter-on.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>William Morris Endeavor</span></a><br><br />advises clients<br><br />to opt out of deal<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/technology/internet/19google.html?_r=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What’s wrong is the process</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24iht-books.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Europe</span></a> is divided<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The book as <a href="http://www.pw.org/content/book_renewable_resource"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>renewable resource</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>5 key reasons why<br><br /><a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/five-key-reasons-why-newspapers-are-failing"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>newspapers are dying</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&amp;storycode=44177&amp;c=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wordsworth’s paper</span></a> goes <a href="http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/090820gazette.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>tabloid</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rupert shuts down<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/21/londonpaper-london-newspaper-market-standard"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The London Paper</span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>It’s not just the Anglo papers<br><br />that are at <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/21/BU3V19BD1O.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>risk of failing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with Dalkey’s <a href="http://www.pw.org/content/qampa_riker_rides_dalkey_future"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Martin Riker</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Writing for <a href="http://www.thecollagist.com/archive/August2009/McLendon/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gordon Lish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Okay – can the <a href="http://netpoetic.com/2009/08/longestpoemintheworld-com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poem tweets</span></a> stop already?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://newsminer.com/news/2009/aug/23/collection-poetry-follows-sextons-evolution-master/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tom Sexton’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>For the Sake of Light<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>I award the <a href="http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Scorpion Prize</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.irontontribune.com/news/2009/aug/15/cowboy-poet-conduit-realm-down--earth/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dean Armstrong</span></a>,<br><br />a cowboy poet in Southern Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The masks of <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090831/scott"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Isak Dinesen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Storytelling at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/fashion/16moth.html?_r=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Moth</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.studlife.com/scene/2009/08/23/%E2%80%98hungry-young-poets%E2%80%99-feeds-the-community/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hungry Young Poets</span></a>”<br><br />feed the community<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.kwls.org/lit/kwls_blog/2009/08/the_pleasures_of_disorientatio.cfm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Billy Collins</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/entertainment/04-the-conundrums-creative-writing-qs-13"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The MFA glut</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20090820/FEATURES17/908200335"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Books &amp; bluegrass</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.arts.gov/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rocco Landesman</span></a><br><br />on the NEA<br><br />&amp; “a new conversation<br><br />on the arts in America”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Filming (half of)<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/film_adaptation_of_the_brothers?utm_source=a-section"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Brothers Karamazov</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/22/creativity-hypochondria-brian-dillon"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Creativity &amp; hypochondria</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/08/21/weirdstock_3_days_of_peace_music_and_weirdness/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Weirdstock</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shepard Fairey interviews <a href="http://swindlemagazine.com/issue08/banksy/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Banksy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/21/DD1M195294.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Mission</span></a> as art<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/08/la-museum-director-lives-10-of-the-time-in-ny.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>LA’s museum director</span></a><br><br />spends 10% of his time in NYC<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The ruin of <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090823/en_afp/entertainmentusfinancephotographypeopleleibovitz"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Annie Leibovitz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Who owns <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-cranach22-2009aug22,0,7398800.story?track=rss"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Adam &amp; Eve</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/21/allston_x_men_theme_mural_soon_must_fade_to_blank/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>X-Men mural</span></a> is doomed<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Threatening an <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jSaPloLj_0ul6SY6T7THFXoth1RA"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Indian painter</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0823-galleriesaug23,0,2765377.story?track=rss"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chicago galleries</span></a> struggle<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Saving <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0821/p17s01-algn.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gropius</span></a> in Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A Smithsonian Folkways tribute to<br><br /><a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/explore_folkways/mike_seeger.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mike Seeger</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/aug/24/soprano-fall-glyndebourne"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The dangers of opera</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://douglasdunndance.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=128&amp;Itemid=34"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Douglas Dunn on Merce Cunningham</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lunch with <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/144fa854-82e2-11de-ab4a-00144feabdc0.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jared Diamond</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n16/mich02_.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Walter Benn Michaels</span></a><br><br />on race, class &amp; sexual orientation<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.powells.com/review/2009_08_21"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wittgenstein</span></a> family feud<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/13644/frankfurt-on-the-hudson/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Frankfurt on the Hudson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/08/06/cahokia/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cahokia</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>My thanks to<br><br /><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don Wentworth</span></a><br><br />and <a href="http://danielsilliman.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dan Silliman</span></a>,<br><br />who contributed maybe a quarter<br><br />of these links<o:p></o:p></span></p>sans<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15064750660430692-7751800242047955981?l=sillimanslinks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15064750660430692.post-35373351832569092322009-08-21T00:01:00.000-04:002010-05-04T10:15:19.939-04:00<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><img width=279 height=388 src="http://jwa.org/system/files/imagecache/scale_width_225px/mediaobjects/Dropkin-Celia.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yiddish modernist<br><br /><a href="http://catranslation.org/blog/2009/08/13/celia-dropkin-in-the-hot-wind/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Celia Dropkin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://catranslation.org/blog/2009/08/17/yerra-sugarman-interview-celia-dropkin/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yerra Sugarman</span></a><br><br />about <a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dropkin-celia"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dropkin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://archjournal.wustl.edu/node/36"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Palmer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/by-terror-armed/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marie Buck’s</span></a> “The Beheading Game”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A profile of <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=237392"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rodrigo Toscano</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/08/john-thompson-1977.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Thompson</span></a><br><br />&amp; the Canadian ghazal<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/de-la-Torre/Close-Listening/de-la-Torre_Crush_Close-Listening_8-4-09.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mónica de la Torre</span></a> reading<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/de-la-Torre/Close-Listening/de-la-Torre_Conversation_Close-Listening_8-4-09.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>de la Torre talking</span></a> with Charles Bernstein<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/was-the-policy/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>M. NourbeSe Philip’s</span></a><br><br />“Zong 26”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://nickpiombino.blogspot.com/2009/08/ancient-use-of-stone-by-ray-dipalma.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ray DiPalma’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Ancient Use of Stone<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/when-will-she-finish-her-necklace/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kim Rosenfield’s</span></a> “Chapter Six”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/book-review-sagacircus-lyn-hejinian/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lyn Hejinian’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Saga / Circus<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.peerscribe.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Peerscribe</span></a>,<br><br />a social network<br><br />just for writers<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The poetry of<br><br /><a href="http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/2009/08/el-desahucio-poetry-of-david-rosenmann.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Rosenmann-Taub</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/a-public-quality/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>George Oppen’s</span></a> “Ballad”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/WwkTV"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Google &amp; the orphans</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/just-arrived/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Duncan’s</span></a> “Enthralled”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081701402.html?hpid=sec-religion"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Amish internet</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/08/outsider-poems-mini-anthology-in_17.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shaker vision drawings</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Performing <a href="http://donniemather.blogspot.com/2009/08/working-on-allen-ginsbergs-kaddish.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ginsberg’s <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Kaddish</i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nypl.org/blogs/2009/07/24/burroughs-berg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Burroughs</span></a> at the Berg<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/like-tiresias/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>George Stanley’s</span></a> “Veracruz”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The 7^th annual<br><br /><a href="http://jackkerouac5k.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Kerouac 5K</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An impeccable roster<br><br />for this year’s<br><br /><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/attention-span-2009-contributors/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Attention Span</span></a> project<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>August 23 at the (New) Reading Series<br><br />in Oakland<br><br /><a href="http://newyipes.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Laura Moriarty, Clark Coolidge<br><br />&amp; new videos by Brandon Downing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The (New) Reading Series<br><br />also has won a<br><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/16DAic"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Best of the Bay</span></a><br><br />award from the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Bay Guardian<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/stoned-and-inconsolable/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anne Boyer’s</span></a> “Brute”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vispo from <a href="http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-asemic-writing-from-satu-kaikkonen.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Satu Kaikkonen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://archjournal.wustl.edu/node/38"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Huan Saussy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6723015.ece"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Economou’s Ananios</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2009/06/protracted-life-or-kind-of-staring.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nico Vassilakis’s</span></a> staring poetics<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/unimpeachable/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael S. Hennessey’s</span></a><br><br />“Everyone and Anyone”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/reviews/this-is-why-i-hurt-you"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kate Greenstreet’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>This is Why I Hurt You<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://networkedblogs.com/p9132814?ref=nf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Famous Seamus</span></a><br><br />on langpo et al<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A schedule for the<br><br /><a href="http://www.fallforthebook.org/events.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fall for the Book</span></a><br><br />festival next month in Virginia:<br><br />Rae Armantrout &amp; I<br><br />read Wednesday night<br><br />&amp; I give a talk on blogging on Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/20/NSTH197NOP.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don’t mess with the librarian</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/this-job-will-not-wait/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alli Warren’s</span></a><br><br />“The Poet Must be a Professional”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The longest poem in the world</span></a><br><br />‘t’ain’t necessarily the best<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://archjournal.wustl.edu/node/98"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tyrone Williams’</span></a> <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>On Spec<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/very-fanciful/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bill Luoma’s</span></a><br><br />“I love the idea of a Jennifer sofabed”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The dark side of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/16/william-golding-attempted-rape"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>William Golding</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Spring_2009/reviews/R_Porte.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Amy Catanzano’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>iEpiphany<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/this-job-will-not-wait/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rob Halpern’s</span></a><br><br />“And in all these faces”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/oVlj6"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What kind of writer</span></a><br><br />do you look like?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/opinion/20cogan.html?ref=opinion"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The text must fit the audience</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gold in the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-caw-off-the-shelf16-2009aug16,0,4959005.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>dust jacket</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/reviews/night-sea"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Moritz’</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Night Sea<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/fluted-throats/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Elizabeth Marie Young’s</span></a><br><br />“The Shiftless Art of Watching Dead Things<br><br />Rising at the Louvre”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://archjournal.wustl.edu/node/32"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Joyce Carol Oates</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://chujoe.net/index.php?id=152"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Janus face of poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/poetry/profiles/poet_goldbarth.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Albert Goldbarth</span></a> reading<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://remarksinaminorkey.blogspot.com/2009/08/rilke-this-is-couple-of-months-away-but.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Snow’s Rilke</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Even <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=asX0oQc5YBZc"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Readers Digest</span></a> </i>goes <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081703057.html?hpid=artsliving"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chapter 11</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/reviews/the-brother-swimming-beneath-me"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brent Goodman’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Brother Swimming Beneath Me<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://archjournal.wustl.edu/node/89"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Frank Bidart’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Watching the Spring Festival<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-caw-off-the-shelf9-2009aug09,1,4248386.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The somnambulists’ school of narrative</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Sapho_McEvilley.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>McEvilley’s Sappho</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2009/08/15/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Prairie Home Companion’s</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poetry compilation show<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How Orwellian was <a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6739994.ece"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Orwell</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://archjournal.wustl.edu/node/108"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marvin Bell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/reviews/night-sea"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jim Harrison’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>In Search of Small Gods<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6744540.ece"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thomas Pynchon’s</span></a> post-utopian noir<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-caw-paperback-writers16-2009aug16,0,70316.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nathanael West,</span></a> <br><br />writing <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Day of the Locust<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/reviews/sometimes-my-heart-pushes-my-ribs"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ellen Kennedy’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/08/marin-poetry-chair.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Marin Poetry Chair</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://remarksinaminorkey.blogspot.com/2009/08/charles-wright-charles-wright-is-poet.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Wright’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sestets<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mostly quietist this year at <a href="http://www.brynmawr.edu/calendar/visiting_writers.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bryn Mawr</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/books/18poirier.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Richard Poirier</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What is <a href="https://www.bu.edu/agni/reviews/online/2009/oppenheimer.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>George Scialabba</span></a> good for?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dearth of poetry at the<br><br /><a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2009/08/top-10-roadside-rhymes-number-2.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Testicle Festival</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>One way to listen to <a href="http://www.esquire.com/the-side/video/mary-louise-parker-videos/mary-louise-parker-poetry-reading-081809"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Simic</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.togog.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Towards a grammar of gesture</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://onthehuman.org/humannature/?p=294"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mark Turner</span></a><br><br />on the scope of human thought<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3595/reconstructions-avant-garde-art-japan-1945-1965"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Avant-garde art in Japan</span></a><br><br />1945-1965<br><br />(registration required)<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-lacmabox18-2009aug18,0,3218278.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How</span></a> to pay a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-lacma18-2009aug18,0,4023116.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>museum director</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A tribute to the arts<br><br />(or maybe the ahts)<br><br />in <a href="https://secure.votelouise.com/page/content/CarolineKennedy/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rochester, NY</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-heriberto-yipez.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Heriberto Yepez</span></a><br><br />on the crisis in art<br><br />in Tijuana<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111899997"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pop art meets the apocalypse</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3641/urban-avant-gardes-and-social-transformation-art-architecture-and-change"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Urban Avant-Gardes <br />and Social Transformation</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(registration required)<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Honorary doctorates to<br><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/8YVSQ"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Braxton, Shepp, Rzewski</span></a> et al<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Fresh Air </i>interview<br><br />with the late <br><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111888401"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Les Paul</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/08/13/obituaries/1247463983106/last-word-les-paul.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>NY Times</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>video interview<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>NY Times </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>obit for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14ali.html?_r=1&amp;ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rashied Ali</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bill T. Jones remembers <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=111623622&amp;m=111623603"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Merce Cunningham</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://bit.ly/S1OAK"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Bergman’s bodie<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>s</b></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/shows/project-runway"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>It’s ba-a-ack!</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/zap-project-runway-season-six-designer-work-pics,0,1484586.photogallery"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Project Runway’s</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>new designers<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-project-runway20-2009aug20,0,626807.story"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Why it’s fierce</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/image/la-ig-runwayalums0201-pg,0,1842162.photogallery"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Whatever became of</span></a> …?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-republicans-religion-and-the-triumph-of-unreason-1773994.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Impervious to reality</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/whatwebe/petition.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>What we believe</span></a><br><br />Sign the petition!<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.truthout.org/082009B?n"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>George Lakoff</span></a><br><br />on the “policy-speak disaster”<br><br />in the health care debate<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/note.php?note_id=242370795507&amp;ref=mf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Health security now</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://g20media.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pittsburgh prepares</span></a> for the G20<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>A tip of the Phillie</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>s cap<br><br />to Steve Evans’<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Third Factory / Notes to Poetry</span></a><br><br /></i>from which many<br><br />of these links<br><br />were taken<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15064750660430692-3537335183256909232?l=sillimanslinks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15064750660430692.post-45538086849833160742009-08-17T00:01:00.000-04:002010-05-04T10:11:47.819-04:00<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2523/3828960324_0ee575f80b_o.png"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=526 height=430 src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2523/3828960324_0ee575f80b_o.png"></span ></a><I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Graham Foust<br><br />on the lectures of<br><br /><a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/38/spicer-by-foust.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Spicer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kevin Killian on <a href="http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2009/05/kevin-killian-presents-jack-spicer-1925.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Spicer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>12 or 20 questions<br><br />with <a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/08/12-or-20-questions-with-charles.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Bernstein</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/38/r-dydo-rb-esdale.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dydo’s Stein</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The myths of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/books/12garner.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Clarice Lispector</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>12 or 20 questions<br><br />with <a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/08/12-or-20-questions-with-rae-armantrout.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rae Armantrout</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“when I am faced with <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2009/08/sticky-caterpillar-still-warm-in-its.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>a great poem</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2009/2635222.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nathalie Stephens, Andrew Riemer &amp; Gorkem Acaroglu</span></a><br><br />on a panel on multilingualism<br><br />on the Australian radio program, <br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Book Show </i>(<a href="http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2009/07/bsw_20090724_1005.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>MP3</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/08/denise-rileys-selected-poems-and-peter.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Denise Riley &amp; Peter Jaeger</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Christopher Winks on <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/38/r-dorantes-rb-winks.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dolores Dorantes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://belladonnaconference.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>ADFEMPO:</span></a><br><br />Advancing Feminist Poetics &amp; Activism<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6788825.ece"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ulysses</span></a>:<br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the mass-market paperback<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://filller.blogspot.com/2009/08/warren-tallman-poets-in-vancouver-1963.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Warren Tallman</span></a><br><br />on poets in Vancouver, 1963<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/stories/2009/2607441.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Three generations of NY poets</span></a>, reading<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a href="http://pawainc.blogspot.com/2009/08/083109-deadline-2009-2010-filamore.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>The 2009-2010 Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize</span></a> –<br><br />the deadline is fast approaching</span></strong><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A blood drive for <a href="http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/07/penguin-wants-to-suck-your-blood/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dracula</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Leonard Schwartz’<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/XCP.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cross-Cultural Poetics</span></a><br><br /></i>MP3 archives<br><br />now includes <a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Silliman/Silliman-Ron_Complete-Interview_XCP_06-07-09.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>my appearance</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sony et al<br><br />move toward<br><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/technology/internet/13reader.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>open standards for e-books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Success story:<br><br /><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-16045-Portland-Writing-Examiner~y2009m8d9-St-Johns-Booksellers-hosts-Saturday-noon-readings-through-end-of-September"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>St. John’s Booksellers</span></a><br><br />in Portland OR<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Success story no. 2:<br><br />40 years of <a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/sandwich/town_info/history/x1876201002/All-in-the-family-Titcombs-celebrates-40-years-in-Sandwich"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Titcombs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.uspoetsinmexico.org/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>U.S. Poets in Mexico</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&amp;context=irca"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2 Mayan poets</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/wechsler-unthink.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Age of Unthink</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An Introduction to the <a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/08/nice-to-meet-you.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Prose Poem</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>that isn’t<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>12 or 20 questions with<br><br /><a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/08/12-or-20-questions-with-ken-sparling.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ken Sparling</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8a90f55c-8861-11de-82e4-00144feabdc0.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poets &amp; their letters</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Every Japanese book<br><br /><a href="http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/2009/08/japanese-eeeee-eee-eeee-kawabe-shobo.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tao Lin</span></a> has ever read<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.skarwood.com/ZapSAS.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sonja Skarstedt</span></a> has <a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/08/sonja-skarstedt-d-july-31-2009.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>died</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cognitive Linguistic Approaches<br><br />to Literary Studies:<br><br />State of the Art<br><br />in <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1427409"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cognitive Poetics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>12 or 20 questions with<br><br /><a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/08/12-or-20-questions-with-christine.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Christine Leclerc</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/08/austen-marvin-homeopathy-language/#more-4648"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cate Marvin</span></a>, good thief<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marvin on<br><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/13yPw7"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>sentiment as a threat</span></a> to women’s poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/10/DD8F195Q1N.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roberto Bolaño’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Skating Rink<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/LpMNa"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>New Directions Reading Guides</span></a><br><br />(including <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Skating Rink</i>)<br><br />available on Scribd<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bye-bye <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/subscription-cards-rip/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>blow-ins</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>first recordings</span></a> of speech<br><br />date from 1860<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://jeffrey-side.blogspot.com/2009/08/can-there-ever-be-another-high.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Flarf &amp; high modernism</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Joel Brouwer on <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/08/4632/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Loden</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Homage to the <a href="http://thomasdevaney.blogspot.com/2009/08/gorgeous-semi-colon.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>semi-colon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://networkedblogs.com/p8811351"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The fear of writing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/index.asp?id=105"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Matchbox</span></a> </i>digital archive<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.pirenesfountain.com/jeffrey-side_interview.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jeffrey Side</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-no-proof:no'><a href="http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.09-literature-jack-kerouac-literary-mark-abley/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Kerouac</span></a>: Québécois?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-no-proof:no'>Unintended legacy:<br><br /><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/14/DD8J193T9B.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kerouac’s</span></a> legal limbo<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don Share<br><br />on <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/08/real-life/#more-4546"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Seth Abramson &amp; Yvor Winters</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyinzer.com/khenriksen.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Handmade</span></a> books<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://pagesbooks.ca/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pages</span></a>, in Toronto,<br><br />is the latest bookstore<br><br />to announce its demise<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/O3tVx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>CA Conrad</span></a>:<br><br />a sad visit to Whitman’s house<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ronslate.com/three_new_titles_wallace_stevens_robert_frost_and_thom_gunn"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gunn, Stevens &amp; Frost</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200908u/dwayne-betts"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>R. Dwayne Betts:</span></a><br><br />From prisoner to poet<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=237378"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry &amp;science</span></a>:<br><br />can this marriage be saved?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1667/173/89/627736/n627736_36523870_4860.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Best book jacket</span></a><br><br />(let-‘em-eat-cake division)<br><br />I’ve seen in some time<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/08/mrs-dalloways.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Best bookstore window</span></a><br><br />(let-‘em-bake-cake division)<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-reading9-2009aug09,0,4905017.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The lost art of reading</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>If all the poets went in<br><br />&amp; bought <a href="http://www.newyinzer.com/msavoca.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Powerball tickets</span></a> together<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>12 or 20 questions with<br><br /><a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/08/12-or-20-questions-with-roland-prevost.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roland Prevost</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/BRANDI.HTM"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Brandi’s</span></a> Indian journals<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Coach House founder<br><br /><a href="http://www.chbooks.com/news/stan_bevington_appointed_order_canada"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stan Bevington</span></a><br><br />is named to<br><br />the Order of Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyinzer.com/jkatko.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Justin Katko</span></a>:<br><br />Remarks on Lingo<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.newyinzer.com/johnsonkatko.html"><span style='color:red'>Circuits</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'> of the </span><span style='color:#31849B;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-themeshade:191'>Eye</span></a>”<br><br />with Jeff T. Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mexican novelist<br><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/books/10bellatin.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mario Bellatin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.genwi.com/play/956926"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lisa Robertson</span></a><br><br />lecturing at the University of Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>12 or 20 questions<br><br />for <a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/07/12-or-20-questions-with-lisa-robertson.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lisa Robertson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/books/13book.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yale bans images</span></a> of Muhammad<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with literary agent <a href="http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/385/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tim Seldes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/arts/10cuts.html?_r=1&amp;hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Academic arts programs</span></a><br><br />are cutting back<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>12 or 20 questions with<br><br /><a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/08/12-or-20-questions-with-gillian-sze.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gillian Sze</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://complexity.orconhosting.net.nz/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Complexity</span></a><br><br />has a home page<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry &amp; mystery<br><br />in the early work of <a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2009/08/johnny-be-good-poetry-of-21-jump-street.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Johnny Depp</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyinzer.com/akruckman.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>small</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/enewsletter/august2009/enews0809_cue.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Morgan Lucas Schuldt</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Of <a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/08/chiron-review-albert-huffstickler.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Albert Huffstickler</span></a><br><br />&amp; the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Chiron Review<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lesfigues.blogspot.com/2009/08/lawrence-weiner-said-that-language-is.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lawrence Weiner said</span></a><br><br />that language is material<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>12 or 20 questions with<br><br /><a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/08/12-or-20-questions-with-jonathan-ball.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jonathan Ball</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.oysterboyreview.com/archived/13/McGowinK-DeLillo.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don DeLillo’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Body Artist<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/130GMb"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Coach House Press</span></a> now<br><br />owns the house!<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b<br />style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/education/14textbook.html?em"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rent</span></a> your books<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ten questions for <a href="http://verylikeawhale.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/ten-questions-for-poetry-editors-edward-byrne/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Edward Byrne</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Not <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/14/interview-sean-obrien"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>a poet’s novel</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_3_wordsworth.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>William Wordsworth</span></a>, neocon<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11naming.html?em"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Taxonomy, naming</span></a><br><br />&amp; the desire for groups<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.library.upenn.edu/docs/publications/fritzweb.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Art of the Box Lunch</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pappetit/Issue4Article1.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thinking inside the Box</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://theplumblineschool.blogspot.com/2009/08/dog-days-bark.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Henry Gould</span></a> sets himself up<br><br />to decide what is<br><br />&amp; is not poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/380/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Donald Hall</span></a><br><br />reading 5 poems<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/397/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eleven Days</span></a>,”<br><br />a memoir<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://bit.ly/N95xB"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Richard Russo</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>More talking with <a href="http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/08/14/books/1247463990633/a-conversation-with-richard-russo.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Russo</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20090816_Russo_visits_the_Cape.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Russo</span></a><br />visits the Cape<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bringing back <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/13/tennyson-essential-reading"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tennyson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An article on “civic poetry”<br><br />that fails to mention<br><br /><a href="http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_222225053.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Olson</span></a><br><br />even though it was published in<br><br />Gloucester ?!?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103724101431"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Poet &amp; the Artist Book</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/bloomsbury-will-change-book-jacket-to-reflect-race-of-novels-narrator/?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Truth in book jackets</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/REV-GH.HTM"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Genius &amp; heroin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/11/not-the-booker-prize-judges"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Not-the-Booker</span></a> longlist<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shame-of-Academe-and/47938/?sid=cr&amp;utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fascism &amp; the academy</span></a>,<br><br />then &amp; now<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:<br />"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.minnpost.com/artsarena/2009/08/10/10776/minnesota_writers_populate_new_french-minded_literary_journal"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paris-Minnesota</span></a> connection<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reading <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/10/poem-of-the-week-thomas-wyatt"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thomas Wyatt</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Why <a href="http://eleventhstack.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/why-anne-sexton-matters/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anne Sexton</span></a> matters<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A contest for<br><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/poetryseason/captcha"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Britain’s “Favourite Poet”</span></a><br><br />sans Bunting, Harwood, Raworth, Cobbing or Prynne<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Must it really be <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/13/kipling-nations-favourite-poet"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kipling</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A large selection of <br><br />audio &amp; video<br><br />from <a href="http://www.discoursenotebook.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kristeva, Badiou, Žižek</span></a> et all<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007173.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Mamet</span></a> does Anne Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Village Voice</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><br><br /><a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/08/leaked_excerpt.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>imagines</span></a> what it will be like<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/youtube_video?video_id=20828843&amp;sender=516411077"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Samuel Beckett</span></a>,<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Not I, </i>part 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/arts/music/10seeger.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mike Seeger</span></a><br />has died<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://inlog.org/2009/08/13/r-i-p-rashied-ali-1935-2009/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rashied Ali</span></a>, <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/08/16/rashied_ali_76_drummer_worked_with_john_coltrane/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>R.I.P</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/books/review/Jennings-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The work of music</span></a><br><br />in the age of<br><br />digital reproduction<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16beatles-t.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Beatles</span></a><br><br />re-inventing music<br><br />yet again?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/08/american-idiot-berkeley-rep-starts-rehearsal-on-green-day-musical.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>American Idiot</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>becomes a musical<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/arts/music/13tangle.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tanglewood</span></a><br><br />from <a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/08/13/tanglewood_festival_sounds_themes_of_diversity_and_coalescence/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Zukofsky to Zorn</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>On <a href="http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2009/08/strokes-for-pierre-henry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pierre Henry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15064750660430692-4553808684983316074?l=sillimanslinks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15064750660430692.post-83452881454956420282009-08-10T00:01:00.001-04:002010-05-04T10:10:33.755-04:00<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2517/3797538449_f200788b80_o.jpg"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=273 height=519 src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2517/3797538449_f200788b80_o.jpg"></span></a><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>A brief history of <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n23/pric01_.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>shorthand</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>The <a href="http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/a-brief-history-of-shorthand/"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>disappearing language</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://fullofcrow.com/prate/2009/08/michael-jacobson/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Jacobson</span></a><br><br />about asemic writing<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Why I don’t call<br><br />literary doodling<br><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>asemic</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Geof Huth,<br><br />reading <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2009/08/reading-coincidences-into-sentences.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Grenier’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sentences<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2009/08/27-eyes-in-line-6.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eyechart poems &amp; fidgetglyphs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>O bury me<br><br />in a <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-we-anyway-are.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>cartridge of ink</span></a><br><br />so that my death<br><br />can make you blink<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/08/reading-report.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Loden</span></a> reading<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2009/08/03/no-live-readings/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Edmund Wilson</span></a>:<br><br />“I don’t give readings”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/when-the-beats-moved-to-paris.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Beat Hotel</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-17561-SF-Literature-Examiner~y2009m8d5-Dharma-Bums"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dharma Bums</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“as kind as <br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>On the Road</i><br><br />can be cruel”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-706-East-Bay-Literary-Examiner~y2009m8d4-Jan-Kerouac-Princess-of-the-Beats"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Princess of the Beats</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33613"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Prince of Poets</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>gets to semifinal round<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>My neighbor, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/07/mahmoud-darwish-poetry-palestine"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mahmoud Darwish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2009-08/05/content_18275190.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chinese poetry</span></a> in Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reading <a href="http://pansypoetics.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Timothy Liu’s</span></a> “The Decision”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/38/iv-chernoff-ivb-nakagawa.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Maxine Chernoff</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Responding to <a href="http://partial-arts.blogspot.com/2009/08/responses-to-johannes-goransson-kenneth.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Göransson &amp; Goldsmith</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://jejacobson.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/on-metaphor/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Metaphor vs. Goldsmith</span></a>??<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What if you pull a literary hoax<br><br />&amp; <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/What-If-You-Pull-a-Literary/47501/?utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>nobody notices</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://garylehmann.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-flarf-real.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is flarf real</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What is <a href="http://ryaneckes.blogspot.com/2009/08/notes-on-innovation.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>innovation</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.warc.net/v3/Main%20page/main%20frame/ayannab.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jamaican-Canadian</span></a> poet <a href="http://www.poets.ca/Linktext/direct/black.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ayanna Black</span></a><br><br />has <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/obituary/article/678223"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>died</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>As has Indonesian poet, <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/07/content_11840501.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>W.S. Rendra</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remembering <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1105820.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mikhail Gendelev</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://vanitasmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/08/tc-poetic-encounters.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tom Clark</span></a>:<br><br />encounters with elders<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/for-the-time-being/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Norman Fischer</span></a><br><br />in the<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> New York Times<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry &amp; the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/august-5-2009/the-things-of-this-world/3846/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>sacramental imagination</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/08/10/090810fi_fiction_alexie"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sherman Alexie’s</span></a><br><br />“War Dances”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/4DBIw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Karbala</span></a> as metaphor<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/08/AR2009080802437.html?hpid=artslot"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The pen doctor</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-handwriting9-2009aug09,0,1470652.story?track=rss"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The return of handwriting</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bloodyicecream84.blogspot.com/2009/08/off-with-her-head.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The risk-averse poet</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/01/mummylit-daddylit-parenting-books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Delicious babies</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.redroom.com/video/losing-my-religion-animated-poem-ren-powell"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ren Powell’s</span></a> “Losing My Religion”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5995899/Prison-poets-caught-in-plagiarism-bid.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Prison poets caught plagiarizing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Did <a href="http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200908a.htm#nj2"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>HarperCollins</span></a><br><br />fake print run numbers?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2009/aug/09/rupert-murdoch-profile-james-robinson"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>superhero to save print</span></a>?<br><br />Rupert??<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/06/rupert-murdoch-website-charges"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Murdoch websites</span></a><br><br />to all charge for content<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/38/r-toscano-rb-knight.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rodrigo Toscano’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Collapsible Poetics Theater<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/Credo-Howard-Junker-on-the-thrill-of-discovering-writers-52604387.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Howard Junker</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“A deliciously composed <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/07/RVTI18ELIO.DTL&amp;type=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>dark comedy</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“Beach reading” from <a href="http://bit.ly/2HeWHe"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thomas Pynchon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>“<a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20090809_Hey__man__a_Pynchon_private_dick.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A waste of talent</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/pl_print_1708"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pynchon’s LA</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What <a href="http://shelf-life.ew.com/2009/07/30/thomas-pynchon-what-might-he-look-like-now/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pynchon</span></a> might look like today<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pynchon’s 1973<br><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NBPpM--pY"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>National Book Award</span></a> acceptance speech<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Corey"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Professor Irwin Corey</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A history of the controversy<br><br />over <a href="http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/jkcontro.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kerouac’s estate</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_12944602"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Sampas</span></a> expresses disappointment<br><br />at the latest court ruling<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://trueslant.com/vickiekarp/2009/07/31/where-the-wild-things-are/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Maurice Sendak &amp; Marianne Moore</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/08/resonance-revelation.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don Wentworth</span></a> celebrates 20 years<br><br />of the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Lilliput Review</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2009/08/09/shakespeare_bard_vs_recession/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shakespeare</span></a> vs. the recession<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n15/dobs01_.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Deutschland ist <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Hamlet</i></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/books/review/Matthews-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Danzy Senna’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Where Did You Sleep <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20090809_Tracing_a_multiracial_family_history.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Last Night</span></a>?</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don’t hate the poet,<br><br /><a href="http://www.steveschroeder.info/2009/08/dont-hate-poet-hate-po-biz.html?ext-ref=comm-sub-email"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>hate the po-biz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://structureandsurprise.wordpress.com/theory-criticism/the-structure-form-distinction/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The structure-form distinction</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>3 poems read by Charles Tomlinson:<br><br />“<a href="http://www.carcanet.co.uk/data/audio/audio50.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Revolution Piazza di Spagna</span></a>”<br><br />“<a href="http://www.carcanet.co.uk/data/audio/audio51.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>News</span></a><br><br />“<a href="http://www.carcanet.co.uk/data/audio/audio52.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>On the Late Plane</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://saintelizabethstreet.blogspot.com/2009/07/collection-of-silence.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>collection of silence</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2009_08_014912.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Importance of Being Iceland</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/08/text-to-movies/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Text-to-movie</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A profile of <a href="http://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/08/profile_of_poet_and_teacher_ja.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Ridl</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/Books/1136648.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Astrid Brunner &amp; Kate Braid</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Like its subject,<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/08/02/like_its_subject_byron_in_love_is_flawed/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Byron in Love</span></a><br><br /></i>is flawed<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/shivering_romantic_interview_with_chris_hutchinson"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chris Hutchinson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2009588150_cowboy03.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Clark Crouch</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://americanfiction.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/workshop-prose/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Raymond Carver’s</span></a> “workshop prose”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/5995648/Roger-McGough-Why-we-all-want-more-poetry-please.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roger McGough</span></a>:<br><br />Why we all want more poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thesecondpass.com/?p=2165"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Solzhenitsyn</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>In The First Circle<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/anotherthing/460072/whom_do_you_write_your_poems_for"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Katha Pollitt</span></a>:<br><br />For whom do you write your poems?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Finding freedom<br><br />in an unfree society:<br><br />art struggles in <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-as-myanmar-art-amid-limits,1,7666886.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Myanmar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jul/29/jennifer-weiner-stop-swearing"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Self-censoring</span></a> your own reading<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/magazine/09Newspaper-t.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What’s a big city</span></a><br><br />without a newspaper?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/education/09textbook.html?em"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Textbooks</span></a> are history<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2609/2248"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reinventing academic publishing online</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bibliophilebullpen.blogspot.com/2009/08/bezos-can-get-stuffed.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Portable reading devices</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.printmag.com/Article/Kill-Your-Darlings"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Book jacket designs</span></a><br><br />that didn’t make it<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>The <a href="http://mfachronicles.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>MFA Chronicles</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Oprah’s summer reading list<br><br />contains 2 poetry anthologies:<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.oprah.com/slidepopup/omagazine/200907-omag-summer-reading-list/15"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poems from the Women’s Movement</span></a><br><br /></i>edited by Honor Moore<br><br />&amp; Robert Pinsky’s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.oprah.com/slidepopup/omagazine/200907-omag-summer-reading-list/24"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Essential Pleasures</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/so_what_do_you_read/oprah_is_getting_sued_for_one_trillion_dollars_by_a_poet_123819.asp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A poet sues Oprah</span></a><br><br />for $1 trillion<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Some thoughts on <a href="http://www.bookslut.com/features/2009_08_014931.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>women’s poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.thebeatmuseum.org/jesse-ventura.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>former governor of Minnesota</span></a><br><br />at the Beat Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A profile of <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-18812-Brooklyn-Literature-Examiner~y2009m8d6-Profile-of-a-New-York-Poet-Eugene-Ostashevsky"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eugene Ostashevsky</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Amesbury celebrates <a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/amesbury/news/x1678043407/Amesbury-readings-celebrate-Whittier-and-the-power-of-poetry"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Whittier</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The perfection of the <a href="http://vanitasmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/08/baseball-classicism.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>box score</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/ancestors.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>when / remembered by no one</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/209828"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Walter Mosley</span></a> on true crime<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://poettopoetwritertowriter.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Elizabeth Swados</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6673934.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nabokov’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Original of Laura<br><br /></i>is no <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jul/31/nabokov-the-original-of-laura"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>masterpiece</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.textetc.com/modernist/current-difficulties.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the dark side of poetry</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sept. 24 at the New School in NYC:<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.newschool.edu/writing/events.aspx?id=30846"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Best American Poetry</span></a> </i>launch reading<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ignoretheventriloquists.blogspot.com/2009/08/scatalogical-in-artistic-production.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry &amp; scatology</span></a>:<br><br />are we full of it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://bit.ly/1estoy"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>appalling pair of buttocks</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&amp;pa=list_pages_categories&amp;cid=355"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ed Baker</span></a>:<br><br />Letter to Jackson Mac Low<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/52198937.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nash</span></a> kept it light<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blog.ogdennash.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Blogden</span></a> Nash<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What it means to be<br><br />a <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/features/arts/offthepage/blog/2009/08/national_poetry_slam_in_west_p.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>slam poet</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-15724-San-Diego-Poetry-Examiner~y2009m8d8-Slam-Poetry-101"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Slam Poetry 101</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://media.www.utdmercury.com/media/storage/paper691/news/2009/08/03/News/Dallas.Poets.Primed.For.Natl.Slam-3753703.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dallas poets</span></a> ready for the slam<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/08/08/0808poetryslam.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nerd Slam</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/features/arts/offthepage/blog/2009/08/live_from_national_poerty_slam.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Tuesday night scene</span></a> <br><br />at the National Poetry Slam<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.pbpulse.com/?s=National+poetry+slam&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;=Search"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>More notes &amp; videos</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_books_blog/2009/08/national-poetry-slam-thursday-night.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thursday night</span></a> highlights<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Friday Night semifinals<br><br />in the <a href="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_books_blog/2009/08/national-poetry-slam-friday-semifinals.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>National Poetry Slam</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://nationalpoetryslam.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>National Poetry Slam</span></a> website<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/08/08/a5b_topfivepoetry_0809.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Five highlights</span></a><br><br />as read by Silicon Sally<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.spokenwords.tv/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Spoken Words TV</span></a> goes live<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://dgmyers.blogspot.com/2009/07/americas-leading-catholic-novelist.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>America’s leading Catholic novelist</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Something tragic on <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-05/the-capes-tragic-characters/?cid=topic:mainpromo3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Cape</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20090804_U_S__has_old_ties_with_Islam.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>U.S. ties to Islamic culture</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://haroldyblum.wordpress.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Harold &amp; Blum</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://haroldyblum.wordpress.com/what-who-why/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What? Who? Why?</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/arts/08rocco.html?_r=1&amp;hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>New NEA chief</span></a><br><br />suggests a shift<br><br />from Gioia’s conservative approach<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fox promotes <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/#08-08-09-x"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thundercrack</span></a>!<br><br /></i>while attacking the NEA<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=1781&amp;FID=45"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thundercrack!</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>at the SF International LGBT Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/firstlight/tcrack/Trailer.rm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>trailer</span></a> Fox “couldn’t show”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thundercrackthefilm.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thundercrack</span></a>! </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>– the web site<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp; on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundercrack!"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wikipedia</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2009/nytom_urb-arts-organizations.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Risky investments</span></a><br><br />threaten NY arts institutions<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/08/03/dean-britta-pay-tribute-to-andy-warhol-in-prospect-park/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Andy Warhol</span></a><br><br />in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Illuminating the manuscript:<br><br /><a href="http://www.sibila.com.br/index.php/poemas/721-entre"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Régis Bonvicino’s <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Entre</i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><br><br /></i>with illustrations by Susan Bee<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>In bed in <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/In-bed-with-the-genrebenders.5536715.jp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Edinburgh</span></a><br><br />with the genre-benders<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>§</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/theater/07fringe.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Berkshire Fringe</span></a> fest<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/arts/07festivals.html?ref=theater"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Berkshire</span></a> summer art <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/arts/07bberkshires.html?ref=theater"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>programs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__PR/GIC/2009/07/28__Werner__Tuebke__PM.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Werner Tübke</span></a> – the Wyeth of Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://kresge.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2009 Kresge Art Fellows</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://wwwwsonneteighteencom.blogspot.com/2009/08/exchange-with-murat-nemet-nejat.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Murat Nemet-Nejat &amp; Linh Dinh</span></a><br><br />on street photography<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“Sucking the blood”<br><br />of young animators:<br><br />Talking with <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/07/DDTK193AUE.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hayao Miyazaki</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Bernstein’s tribute to<br><br /><a href="http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bernstein/Class/Bernstein-Charles_04_Class_1976.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Budd Schulberg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.rabbireport.com/archives/2009/08/budd-schulberg.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Schulberg &amp; HUAC</span></a>: naming names<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“<a href="http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.07-film-unrepentant/1/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Unrepentant</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=20754&amp;more=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Saint or Villain</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.hedgehogs.net/pg/newsfeeds/hhwebadmin/item/664083/budd-schulberg-screenwriter-obituary"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>He coulda been a contender</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Blog critics at <a href="http://blogcritics.org/culture/feature/comic-con-2009/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Comic-Con</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15064750660430692-8345288145495642028?l=sillimanslinks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15064750660430692.post-52593204603959372342009-08-04T00:01:00.000-04:002010-05-04T10:06:38.884-04:00<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3528/3774578725_0fe59088e4_o.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=253 height=250 src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3528/3774578725_0fe59088e4_o.jpg"></span ></a><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/images/portraits/Lin-Tan_Ch-Bernstein_8-1-07.JPG"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=287 height=250 src="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/images/portraits/Lin-Tan_Ch-Bernstein_8-1-07.JPG"></span></a><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2009/06/thomas-fink-tan-lin-plagiarismoutsource.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thomas Fink</span></a> on<br><br />Tan Lin’s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>plagiarism / outsource<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2009/06/tan-lin-plagiarism-response-to-thomas.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tan Lin</span></a><br><br />on Thomas Fink’s review<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://gloucesterboattrain.blogspot.com/2009/08/let-me-draw-attention-to-four-poets-who.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Prose poetry &amp; the baroque</span></a>:<br><br />Donald Wellman, James Cook, <br><br />Ewa Chrusciel &amp; Zachary Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cold War politics<br><br />&amp; the histories of <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/paloff"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Polish poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/vkHKs"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Four San Francisco literary mags from 1959</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is <a href="http://pansypoetics.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-seth-abramson-may-be-most-unethical.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Seth Abramson</span></a> unethical?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://themoderatevoice.com/41304/sonia-sotomayor-in-haiku-form/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sonia Sotomayor</span></a> haiku <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kerfluffle"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>kerfluffle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A review of <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://bostonreview.net/BR34.4/silliman_micro.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Age of Huts (compleat)</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20090802_Poems_from_a_Greek_master.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Mendelsohn’s</span></a> Cavafy<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/380"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Academy of American Poets</span></a><br><br />has announced the 30 participants<br><br />for this year’s<br><br />Poets’ Forum in October<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-thomas-pynchon2-2009aug02,0,388767.story"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Pynchon’s</span></a> <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Inherent Vice<br><br /></i>“has a plot”!?!</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-pynchon-sidebar2-2009aug02,0,713040.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>¶</span></a> therefrom<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thinking of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/01/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-review"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Sixties</span></a><br><br />only as a place<br><br />you’ve heard about<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“’The Big Sleep’<br><br />as told by<br><br /><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/08/03/090803crbo_books_menand"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the hippy-dippy weatherman</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/?q=en/node/4734"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>What form digital lit</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.robertswartwood.com/?page_id=8"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Hint fiction</span></a></span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/07/less-than-twitterfic.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is less than “Twitterific</span></a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>“When <a href="http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/hint-fiction-when-flash-fiction-becomes-just-too-flashy/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>flash fiction</span></a> becomes just too flashy”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/opinion/03schott.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Twittergraphics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2009/05/anne-gorrick-swimming-lesson-waters.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anne Gorrick’s</span></a><br />“The Swimming Lesson”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poems for <a href="http://bit.ly/AKnez"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shark Week</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/07/ed-markowskis-union-men.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Haibun</span></a> &amp; class war<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Wiener’s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Asylum Poems<br><br />@ 40<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Two short poems by<br><br /><a href="http://roundtablepictures.blogspot.com/2009/07/thoughts-on-two-short-poems-by-richard.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Richard Brautigan</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>(Did he ever write a long one?)<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>When <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/31/RVK418P8OB.DTL&amp;type=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Philip K. Dick</span></a><br><br />started having visions …<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jul/20/collected-poems-complete-account"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Collected volumes</span></a><br><br />obscure as much<br><br />as they reveal<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/30/ice-cream-libraries-ben-and-jerrys"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Library-themed</span></a> Ben &amp; Jerry’s flavors<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2 cheers for <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/malt-whitman-sundae.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Malt Whitman</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/29/scotland-stranraer-library-book-borrower"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Who uses the library</span></a> the most?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yet another e-reader<br><br />to challenge <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2009/07/plastic_logic_e-reader_to_chal.html?wprss=shortstack"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kindle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2009/05/ed-baker-shadow-playing-singing-girl.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ed Baker’s</span></a> “Five Visual Poems”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remembering <a href="http://www.nsartthrob.com/2009/07/31/the-late-jonathan-bayliss-contributed-to-gloucesters-literary-legacy/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jonathan Bayliss</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2009/06/eileen-r-tabios-maid-of-honor-if-i-fell.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eileen R.Tabios’</span></a> “Maid of Honor”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20090802dr.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Canon formation</span></a> in Japanese literature<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/books/03Mcdonnel.html?_r=1&amp;hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>It’s not <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>what </i>you know</span></a>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/29/759502/-north-to-the-future:-the-beat-poetry-of-sarah-palin"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Daily Kos</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>reinvents Conan’s <br><br />Palin poem almost verbatim<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/books/review/Burt-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stephen Burt</span></a><br><br />on 4 books of poetry &amp; one of photographs<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/2THMc8"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Siegell’s</span></a><br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Jambandbootleg<br><br /></i>reviewed in the paper handed out<br><br />at every PHiSH concert<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Peter Ganick <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/17928232/retrospective-thingks-credibile"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>thingks</span></a> again<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.forgottenbookmarks.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Forgotten bookmarks</span></a>!<br><br />(I nearly swooned over that 1953<br><br />Pete Runnels baseball card!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.sharkforum.org/2009/08/interview-with-da-powell.html#more"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>D.A. Powell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>On <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/britains-poet-laureate-re_b_248658.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Duffy’s ode</span></a> to the war dead<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>I have always liked it<br><br />that the Montana book awards<br><br />are for <a href="http://www.booksellers.co.nz/mba_win/bfb_poetry_09_win.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>New Zealand poets</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/Books/9012730.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lochhead</span></a> on love<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry, music, performance<br><br />in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/arts/design/29wassaic.html?hp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>grain elevator</span></a><br><br />in upstate New York<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.wassaicproject.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Wassaic Project</span></a><br><br />Summer Festival<br><br />Aug. 13-16<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-16289-Providence-GLBT-Events-Examiner~y2009m7d21-Digital-daydreaming-Burroughs"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A review</span></a>, 25 years later,<br><br />of Howard Brookner’s<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087012/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Burroughs: The Movie</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2009/07/paul-siegell-paul-siegell-grew-up-new.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Siegell’s</span></a><br><br />“An Entire City Wearing The Same Halloween Costume”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://readwritepoem.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Read Write Poem</span></a> has been relaunched<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22960"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The reinvention of journalism</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/31/AR2009073102476.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sez who</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/dNvAy"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>250+ Shakespeare festivals</span></a> in the USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/31/DDFQ1911PN.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Women’s Will</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/theater/6555193.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>bad boy bard</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Resculpting <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20090719_Director_wrestles__Antony_and_Cleopatra_.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Antony &amp; Cleopatra</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Follow the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-book22-2009jul22,0,7617238.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>First Folio</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jul/31/gandalf-v-dumbledore-greatest-wizards"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gandalf vs. Dumbledore</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Gallaher on <a href="http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2009/08/matthew-collings.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Matthew Collings</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The bad boy of <a href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/allbycontributor.php?search_by=MATTHEW+COLLINGS"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>British art criticism</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Oct. 2-4 in NYC:<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.nyartbookfair.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The NY Art Book Fair</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/fashion/02annie.html?ref=global-home"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Annie Leibovitz</span></a> in hock<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A major <a href="http://www.104.fr/#en/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>new art space</span></a> in <a href="http://globespotters.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/many-genres-one-giant-space/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paris</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The once vital <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Langton_Arts"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>New Langton Arts</span></a><br><br />in San Francisco<br><br /><a href="http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/07/29/new-langton-arts-in-crisis/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>appears</span></a> to have <a href="http://newlangtontownhall.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>imploded</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/in-a-sisters-book-and-a-fathers-scrawl-complex-music-thought-to-be-mozarts/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Two works by Mozart</span></a> in a sister’s notebook?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Arnold Schoenberg's <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Drei Klavierstücke</i>, op. 11-I <br><br />played by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/coryarcangel"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>cats on pianos</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2009/07/issue-fourteen-date-of-publication-1.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Otoliths 14</span></a></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><br><br />is really terrific!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15064750660430692-5259320460395937234?l=sillimanslinks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15064750660430692.post-73018569545061781962009-07-31T00:01:00.000-04:002010-05-03T10:48:33.079-04:00<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://realitystudio.org/images/people/simon_vinkenoog/simon-vinkenoog.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=521 height=391 src="http://realitystudio.org/images/people/simon_vinkenoog/simon-vinkenoog.jpg"></span ></a><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remembering <a href="http://realitystudio.org/biography/im-simon-vinkenoog/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Simon Vinkenoog</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The death of <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1912419,00.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>handwriting</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nicholson Baker</span></a> on the future of reading<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/ask/2009/07/questions-for-baker.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Q&amp;A</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/opinion/29wed3.html?_r=2&amp;ref=opinion"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Google</span></a> has its own plan<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp; the <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2009/07/privacy_police_vs_google_books.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>ACLU</span></a> is not amused<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.litkicks.com/KerouacEstateBattleAgain/#comment-14273"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kerouac estate battle</span></a> takes a new <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/article1022779.ece"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>twist</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Terry Gross talking with<br><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111218053"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/atc-review-counterrevolution-2009.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Counter-Revolution of the Word</span></a><br><br /></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>reviewed in<br><br /><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Against the Current<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Some suggestions<br><br />from the <a href="http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2009/07/salt-summer-sizzler.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Salt Summer Sizzler Sale</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Close listening aloud<br><br />to <a href="http://poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com/2009/07/baraka.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Amiri Baraka</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2009/07/29/robert-haydens-the-whipping/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Hayden’s</span></a> “The Whipping”<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=107006742"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Slow Language</span></a> movement<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is <a href="http://www.1800blogger.com/2009/07/30/hybrid-poetry-post-avant-or-something-else/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>hybrid</span></a> a meaningless catch-all?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.html?id=1664"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kenny Goldsmith’s</span></a> podcast<br><br />for <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Flarf good (sometimes), conceptual not<br><br />it says <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-305-Denver-Literary-Examiner~y2009m7d29-Poems-preaching-access"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>here</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1437794"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>George Lakoff:</span></a><br><br />“The Neural Theory of Metaphor”<br><br />(registration required)<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>§<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A profile of <a href="http://realitystudio.org/publications/death-in-paris/"><span style='co