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  Shorties

  http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/07/shorties...
  130 days ago in largehearted boy: a music and literature blog · Authority: 344

  ARTISTdirect interviews singer-songwriter Aimee Mann. Youve been a defender of artist copyrights and protecting an artists right to make money on album sales. Theres a popular perception out there perhaps as a justification for illegal downloading that
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  Poet Laureate of the United States

  http://poefrika.blogspot.com/2008/07/poet-laureate-of-united...
  129 days ago in Poéfrika · Authority: 65

  Kay Ryan
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  Friday Morning LitLinks

  http://authorscoop.com/?p=509
  130 days ago in Author Scoop · Authority: 20

  Award-winning Canadian author Lawrence Hill gets audience with the Queen. First and only Chinese winner of Nobel Prize for Literature collects black market copies of his banned work. Boom times for Canada’s public libraries. Atlantic Free Press’ Eric Larson bonds with Vincent Bugliosi as they howl in the wilderness. TIME profiles newly announced poet laureate Kay Ryan.
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  http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/robert-grenier-readi...
  130 days ago in Silliman's Blog · Authority: 363

  Robert Grenier reading the wall § When typographers scribble § Scrawl § This Sunday, reading An Ear in Bartram’s Tree in Bartram’s garden § Maxine Chernoff’s “World” in English & Portuguese § Tom Raworth, who just turned 70, talking with Charles Bernstein (MP3) § Nancy Galbraith has died § Charles Bernstein’s “Hero of the Local: Robert Creeley & the Persistence of American Poetry” (scroll down, but if you read Spanish, check out Antonio Ochoa’s ”Autobiografía de Robert Creeley” on the same page) § Some new recordings by yours truly on the Academy of American Poets website: “Albany” from The Alphabet “Quindecagon,” also from The Alphabet “A Love Song” by William Carlos Williams “from ‘What,’” from The Alphabet Another passage “from ‘What’” § Robert Kelly reads Coleridge’s “Kublai Khan” Susan Howe reads “The Nonconformist’s Memorial” Clayton Eshleman reads César Vallejo’s “XIII” Wanda Coleman reads “American Sonnet (35)” Christian Bök reads Hugo Ball’s “Karawane” Jena Osman reads “Mercury Rising (A Visualization” Allen Ginsberg reads “Howl” Anne Waldman reads “Stereo” Richard Howard reads Browning’s “My Last Duchess” § Talking with Ravi Shankar § Talking with Nick Piombino § Seven riddles of form Appreciating Zukofsky from the other side of poetics Robert Leiter on Zukofsky’s sound & sense Zukofsky’s Dell § 53 new book reviews at Galatea Resurrects § Jeffrey Beam on Asheville’s WPVM Wordplay (MP3) (sound link good only until the weekend) § Mark Truscott: “interventions in poetry” § A monument to Nicola Vaptsarov § Talking with Blake Butler § Some recognition for Penn Kemp § Remembering William Studebaker § Gloucester’s laureate announces his program § Brian Turner on Fresh Air § A profile of John McNamee § Salman Rushdie, a novelist again § Talking with Ric Royer § Butcher-poet § “We had to destroy the library in order to save it” § Next season at the Folger: Rae Armantrout & a whole bunch o’ quietude § Talking with Francisco Aragon § Peter Riley’s obit of Andrew Crozier § “It is hard to turn away from  running water” § Opening ¶¶ for sale § From flarf to barf § Kay Ryan, Alice Notley & tarot An excellent profile of Kay Ryan How much of any outsider is Ryan? “America’s busiest poet” § The Trial of Ezra Pound (streaming audio available until the weekend) § Rilke & the question of self-identity § Kevin Killian on Tom Devaney § Is any Amis any good? § Poetry of the self-taught § Message to Poetry: more quietude please (& quoting Zukofsky to justify it!) § The Dylan Thomas walking tour § What’s in a name? § Tale of the Genji mss. turns up after 68 years § Amazon’s impact on small publishers § How to speak Shakespeare § Sending in full professors to teach comp. § The death of Harry Potter? § The writer who could not read § A bookstore closes in Bakersfield & in North Andover, MA § Newspapers are dying Oh no we’re not The impact on “minority” journalists Abandoning a responsibility Saving the industry § Grim news in the war on criticism An era ends § Wikipedia goes into print § French resistance to Google Book Search crumbling § In Canada, libraries thrive How to store data digitally for a century or more § Paul Hoover on the decadence of the US § Did Google make Nicholas Carr stupid? § A Project Runway for artists § Talking with Rem Koolhaas § Everything is Godard § Ebert says goodbye to TV § Blogging & theater criticism § Beckett’s novels on stage Beckett’s voice (a video!) § Martin E.P. Seligman & the big Oops §
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  Amplified

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  130 days ago in Avoiding the Muse · Authority: 64

  The perks include a $35,000 stipend, a $5,000 travel allowance, cultural cachet and a swanky office at the Library of Congress — aptly called the Poetry Room, replete with furniture from the English Edwardian and American Colonial Revival periods and a view of the Capitol. (More on the new Poet Laureate, this time from TIME) ***************************** Listening on Sunday to a radio playing Ezra Pound's wartime radio broadcasts of propaganda and poetry is an eerie experience, the original broadcasts - somehow amplified in the present - echoing uncannily in my mind. ***************************** Passengers spoke of hearing a loud bang and debris flying into the first class cabin as the plane’s flooring gave way, part of the ceiling collapsed and the plane reportedly plunged 20,000ft. ***************************** I am glad it is Friday. Very glad. And I will be more glad when the workday ends today, even though I am still on-call and will be on-call for the weekend. ***************************** Clue: Crap Class! *****************************
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  Time breaks down poet laureate

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  130 days ago in Bookninja · Authority: 293

  Just as it will break us all down eventually. Actually, it’s less grim than that. It’s pop mag Time parsing the position for the people. See that? Alliteration. That’s a poetry thingy. Look it up. Glad to see excellent poet/editor/’Ninja-friend Zapruder quoted here. The current laureate, Charles Simic, says he was often too busy to talk to his cat. He kept expecting the rush to die down, but it never did. “It’s endless interviews,” he says. “The position is so well known that sooner or later every newspaper and magazine in the country gets in touch with you.” And then there’s the correspondence: dozens of emails a day from verse-challenged citizens who aren’t afraid to go straight to the top. “Requests from schoolteachers asking you to give advice to students on how to read literature,” Simic says. “Or from a business association in Topeka asking you to read a poem at the opening of a convention. My cell phone would ring and a high government official would ask me to fix a poem written by her late father to read at his memorial service. Sometimes I wanted to go just to see who these people were, but you can’t do everything.” … Although Ryan hasn’t decided what her project will be, she agrees with those who feel that poetry’s “uselessness” is precisely what makes it cool. As Matthew Zapruder, a poet and an editor at Wave Press, observes, “The idea that you write poetry your whole life and then suddenly in a very public way have to start thinking about how to make it ‘useful’ for the nation is pretty terrifying. In a culture like ours where language has been completely and utterly subordinated to the task of selling people things, how do you create a little freedom? Only in art that isn’t designed to sell or convince or sermonize or cajole or urge. Maybe that’s poetry, or at least some poetry.”
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  Paid Poet

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  130 days ago in Syntax of Things · Authority: 40

  Ever wondered what it's like being the Poet Laureate of the United States? Time gives you an idea: Patricia Gray, the head of the Library's Poetry and Literature Center, describes the laureateship as an "iconic" position. It is the highest honor for a poet in this country — bestowed by the Librarian of Congress, who consults with former laureates, the current laureate, and poetry critics in making his choice. It is the only government office for a literary artist that is not federally funded. It is an academic-year position (October to May), but poets may extend their term if they choose. The perks include a $35,000 stipend, a $5,000 travel allowance, cultural cachet and a swanky office at the Library of Congress — aptly called the Poetry Room, replete with furniture from the English Edwardian and American Colonial Revival periods and a view of the Capitol. From this exalted perch, the poet laureate is charged with bringing poetry to the forefront of the American consciousness, as well as playing consultant to the Library of Congress — which includes giving a reading at the beginning of the term and a lecture or reading at end of term, organizing monthly readings and overseeing the Library's poetry fellowships and prizes. And, of course, he or she should continue to write poems. Sounds simple enough. Still, many laureates have found the demands of the position overwhelming. In his forthcoming memoir, Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry, Donald Hall, who served from 2006 to 2007, sums it up in one sentence: "And the whole laureate year elapsed in a blur of activity." The current laureate, Charles Simic, says he was often too busy to talk to his cat. He kept expecting the rush to die down, but it never did. "It's endless interviews," he says. "The position is so well known that sooner or later every newspaper and magazine in the country gets in touch with you."

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