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I Have Never, Never Kissed a Car Before

Michael Robbins — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:41:54 +0000

Just a note to say I have a new poem up at The Morning News, which recently started publishing poems (by the likes of D. A. Powell & Andrea Cohen, no less). “Slider” is from my “bad…

Storming Trinity Hall from Chicago

Joel Calahan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:37:27 +0000

A portfolio of recent translations of mine from the Italian is featured in the special Translation issue of Cambridge Literary Review.

The selection is titled “Four Genovese Poets,” and contains an excerpt from Laborintus by Edoardo Sanguineti, the…

Ratting Day: Down the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole

Brian T. Abrams — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:36:32 +0000

(The British territories of Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha)

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Guardian Weekly:

8 June 2010

Mauritania tries to close its borders: Spate of kidnappings…

Sculpting in Snow

Oren Izenberg — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:32:55 +0000

Reading around for a short essay on “persona” in poetry, I came across a completely delightful essay by a critic previously unknown to me: Clara Claiborne Park, now in her late eighties and emerita professor at Williams College. (She is,…

Exclusive: The U.S. Paid Money to Support Hugo Banzer’s 1971 Coup in Bolivia

Robert P. Baird — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:22:49 +0000

For nearly four decades, there’s been an open question about the 1971 coup that brought dictator Hugo Banzer Suárez to power in Bolivia: was the U.S. government involved? Thanks to newly declassified documents, we now have an answer.

Banzer was…

my poetry illiberalism

Ange Mlinko — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:16:41 +0000

When Jordan recommended this book to me a couple of months ago, I had reservations; I’m not always a fan of the Marcus approach, for reasons suggested here (e.g., “Depending on your tastes, this is either spellbinding secret…

Down in Chinatown

Joshua Baldwin — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:11:37 +0000

After seeing Yundi perform Chopin at Carnegie Hall last night, we headed to Chinatown for a snack before going to the bar. One pointed to the Fen Yang Corporation, on 107 Eldridge Street. “They have good cheap pork noodle soup,”…

Preachments and Preenings (Or, the Fallacy of Secular Humanism)

Robert P. Baird — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:14:18 +0000

From First Things, an essay by David Hart so good I’m tempted to quote it whole (see also):

The principal source of my melancholy…is my firm conviction that today’s most obstreperous infidels lack the courage, moral intelligence, and

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Hefner, Hollywood . . . and Chicago Review

Joshua Baldwin — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:38:59 +0000

From this week’s New Yorker:

Last week, the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco-based organization of “underdevelopers,” announced that it had raised $12.5 million to buy Cahuenga Peak, a hundred and thirty-eight acres of unspoiled ridgeline that extends to

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Quick Thoughts on Latta on Bernstein

Robert P. Baird — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:16:25 +0000

John gets in some good jabs here, and delivers up a number of the complaints I had about Bernstein’s poetry before I ever heard him read in person: “sophomoric hoots and cleverness,” “some equivalent of mental doodad-making,” “mock voicings…