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The reviewing thread seems to have turned largely to a discussion of ethics/back-scratching, which I think is okay but, come on. This is a ...

But we had banded together to begin with out of a common knowledge and desire, and we would work this commonality to the ends of the earth, ...

Jordan wonders if we need a new "poetry paper of record," one that would do the job the NYT and Poetry aren't capable of do...

It didn't start well. I busted my butt to get downtown in time for Ann Lauterbach's 11 a.m. reading--an absolutely uncivilized time...

Since when does Charles Bernstein have a blog ? And is it a blog? I'm not really sure. It says "Web Log" at the top but it...

From "Stinky Town," in this week's New Yorker : Later, after driving through crowded Chinatown streets with his window down (...

I've spent much of the last two days at the Brandeis Book Sale , often billed as the world's largest used book sale. I can believe ...

Chicago's annual Printer's Row Book Fair is on Saturday and Sunday--an orgy of readings and performances and book vendors lining do...

Canadian Immigration Official: Have you ever been associated with a group that used, uses, advocated or advocates the use of armed struggle...

The premiere issue of Wherever We Put Our Hats , edited by Jon Leon and featuring work by Joel Dailey, Bruce Covey, Aaron Tieger, John Latta...

Stephanie asks : But if it's at all true that the proliferation of poetry blogs changes their social function or dynamic, then where is ...

The phone rings this afternoon. Robin answers it and hands it to me. "It's for you." "Who is it?" "Starbucks....

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich remarked a few days ago that he, unlike some of his predecessors, had the "testicular virility" nee...

Dear Timothy, Thank you for contacting Starbucks Coffee Company. We appreciate you sharing your feedback regarding our recent television com...

So there's this new (I think) commercial on for Starbucks Frappuccino-in-a-bottle. I've only seen it once (it's also noted here...

A bit overwhelmed (though in a good way) by the conversation going on in my own comment box. It's the first time I've ever had enou...

Jonathan describes his "blogger's code," which "says not to criticize the poetry of another blogger who is known to me p...

Ron Silliman muses today on the phenomenon of scribbling into a notebook while listening to another poet read: "the trifecta of litera...

A few more contributions over the past few days to the avant-grrr. Jasper Bernes agrees that we would have "a difficult time defining...

Josh Corey asks: Where do we place a poet who produces normative free verse but publishes it with small presses and keeps blog? Did Ashbery...