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Visions and Revisions: Writing On Writing Well and keeping it up-to-date for 35 years
By William Zinsser
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/visions-and-revisions/

The Fifth Annual Believer Book Award
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200903/?read=believer_book_award

A CELEBRATION OF THE CHAPBOOK: April 23-25
http://diypublishing.blogspot.com/2009/04/celebration-of-chapbook-april-23-25.html

Trompe Lit: OuLiPo in New York City
http://www.artforum.com/diary/id=22421

Gabriel García Márquez, literary giant, lays down his pen
By Paul Hamilos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/02/columbia-gabriel-garcia-marquez-books

The End of Verse?
A recent NEA report finds fiction reading on the rise, while readership of poetry has dropped significantly. Is an art form dying?
By Marc Bain
http://www.newsweek.com/id/191012

Fighting Words
Saga/Circus by Lyn Hejinian Reviewed by Joyelle McSweeney
http://bostonreview.net/BR34.2/mcsweeney.php

Song and Silence
My Fanny Howe: By Maureen N. McLane
Silverfish http://bostonreview.net/BR34.2/mclane.php

Meghan O’Rourke talks to John Ashbery
http://everseradio.com/meghan-orourke-talks-to-john-ashbery/

To sci-fi and beyond:
Whether in revolutionary science fiction or postmodern social criticism, Temple’s Samuel R. Delany presents characters that, like him, can’t be reduced to stereotype.
By Tirdad Derakhshani
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/42383997.html

Polis is This: Charles Olson & the Persistence of Place
http://www.polisisthis.com/watch-now.html

TS Eliot’s damning verdict on George Orwell’s Animal Farm
By Helen Pidd
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/30/eliot-george-orwell-animal-farm

Kureishi on the Rushdie affair: Kenan Malik talks to Hanif Kureishi about the Rushdie fatwa and why no one would write such a book today
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10721

An Interview with D.A. Powell
By Evan J. Peterson
http://southeastreview.org/2009/powell0402.php

Activist poet still burns for craft: John Giorno a headliner at poetry festival
By Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Activist+poet+still+burns+craft/1451251/story.html

A Garland of Garlands: 2009 Poetry Anthologies: National Poetry Month 2009: Anthologies remain a mainstay of poetry publishing
By Craig Morgan Teicher
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6647152.html?industryid=47142

Why a 17th-century novel is a hot political issue in France: Nicolas Sarkozy’s well-publicised scorn has turned The Princess of Cleves into a focus for opponents of the French president
By Andrew Gallix
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/mar/31/princess-cleves-sarkozy-lafayette

Poets & Writers Poetry Challenge
http://www.pw.org/content/poetry_challenge

Newspapers’ self-inflicted blows
By David Sirota

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/26/EDED16NH58.DTL

A Nervous Splendor: The Wittgenstein family had a genius for misery.
By Anthony Gottlieb
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/04/06/090406crbo_books_gottlieb?currentPage=all

Show Your Work! A poet calls for a new kind of poetry criticism, and a new kind of critic.
By Matthew Zapruder
www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=186047

Enthusiasts mark centenary of modern poetry: One hundred years ago today, a group of poets rebelled against Romanticism in a London cafe and changed the course of poetry
By Mark Brown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/25/hulme-modern-poetry-ezra-pound-imagists

Line by Line, Poets Capture the Immigrant Story, New Jersey Style
By Peter Applebome
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/nyregion/29towns.html

Author says poetry saved life: Iraqi poet tells her tale of censorship, exile
By Andrew Arnold
http://www.uecrescent.org/articles/stories/public/200903/27/4nrr_news.html
Palestinian poetry: On the waste land
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13361064

Pun for the Ages
By JOSEPH TARTAKOVSKY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/opinion/28Tartakovsky.html
World’s End by Pablo Neruda: The poet’s odyssey of self is splendidly captured in this translation by William O’Daly.
By Richard Rayner http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-pablo-neruda29-2009mar29,0,707173.story

Craig Raine’s Arsehole: Variations on a theme by Helen Farish
By John Tranter
http://jacketmagazine.com/37/craig-raines-arsehole.shtml

The Writing Life: Maureen Freely
In which the translator of Orhan Pamuk’s works finds herself interpreting more than a language.
By Maureen Freely
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031701998.html

Why books won’t change your life: Publishers love to say a novel is unputdownable, or life-changing. I can’t imagine anything worse
By Alastair Harper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/mar/23/life-changing-books

Dickens vs. America
Matthew Pearl
http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/dickens-vs-america

In times of trouble, fiction thrives
By Carlin Romano
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20090324_In_times_of_trouble__fiction_thrives.html?viewAll=y

The Parables of Flannery O’Connor
By Joyce Carol Oates
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22532

New FC2 Podcast with Brian Evenson
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Lingo: What Child is This?
By Ange Mlinko
Click HERE.

3rd Language Creation Conference: Presentations, Posters, and Further Reading
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Kent Johnson’s Homage to the Last Avant-Garde reviewed
By Peter Davis
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The ultimate French intellectual: The thought performances, the love life and the bank statements of the well-connected Paul Valéry
By Paul Gifford
Click HERE.

Ron Padgett’s How to Be Perfect
Reviewed by Jack Cox
Click HERE.

Annie Finch on Listening to Poetry
Click HERE.

George Oppen and Martin Heidegger: The Philosophy and Poetry of Gelassenheit, and the Language of Faith
By Burt Kimmelman
Click HERE.

The Private Barthes: Posthumous publication of the theorist’s journals draws disapproval
By Benjamin Ivry
Click HERE.

Virginia, Jean, and Flannery: A Good Role Model Is Easy to Find
By Carlin Romano
Click HERE.

A Tale of Sadness and Forgetting
By Michael Weiss
Click HERE.

Preserving Languages Is About More Than Words
By Kari Lydersen
Click HERE.

Writers Recommend
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All My Senses, Like Beacon’s Flame: Fulke Greville’s eloquent path to confused arousal
By Robert Pinsky
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Catching up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti
By Heidi Benson
Click HERE.