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#217 December 2008/January 2009
- Announcements
- Reading Reports
- I Love My Love With a Capital Z: Helen Adam, Kristin Prevallet and Lee Ann Brown in Conversation
- Poems by Karen Weiser – With an Introduction by Stephanie Young
- Book Reviews: Brett Evans & Frank Sherlock, Rob Halpern, Marcella Durand, Lisa Jarnot, Sesshu Foster, Dana Ward, Maxine Gadd, Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand, George Stanley, George Albon, Laura Moriarty, Daniel Comiskey & C.E. Putnam
- Visuals: Cover Art: Beka Goedde, Calendar Art: Jim Behrle
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#216 October/November 2008
- Announcements
- Remembering Mahmoud Darwish & Jonathan Williams
- Lorenzo Thomas, American by Dale Smith
- Poem by Tim Dlugos – With an Introduction by David Trinidad
- Book Reviews: Tisa Bryant, Anselm Hollo, Arecelis Girmay, Edmund Berrigan, Jay Wright, John Godfrey, Island of My Hunger: Cuban Poetry Today, Another Kind of Nation: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry
- Visuals: Cover Art: Will Yackulic
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#215 April/May 2008
- Announcements
- Remembering Michael Goldberg
- To Do Exactly That, Right Now: The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen by Alice Notley
- The Poetry Project Archives — A Fireside Chat with the Director of The Poetry Project
- Poems by Betsy Fagin — With an introduction by Dana Ward
- Book Reviews: Edwin Torres, Stephanie Gray, Greg Fuchs, Susan Landers, Stephen Ratcliffe, Nick Piombino, John Keene & Christopher Stackhouse, Chris Martin
- Visuals: Cover Art: Erica Svec
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#214 February/March 2008
- Announcements
- Reading Reports
- Anne Tardos’s Elegant Software
- Poems by John Godfrey
- Book Reviews: Renee Gladman, Ron Silliman, Born in Utopia: An Anthology of Modern And Contemporary Poetry, Brenda Coultas, Julie Patton, Ron Padgett, Laura Elrick, Helen Adam, David Trinidad
- Visuals: Cover Art: Jonathan Allen
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#213 December 2007/January 2008
- Announcements
- Reading Reports
- Interview: Arlo Quint Sits Down with Ted Greenwald
- Toward An Ethic of Freedom: Some Poems by Hoa Nguyen
- Book Reviews: Joanne Kyger, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Tim Atkins, Barbara Henning, Ara Shirinyan, Benjamin Friedlander, Lewis MacAdams, Eileen Myles, Ivan Blatny, Joseph Lease
- Visuals: Cover Art: Zachary Wollard
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#212 October/November 2007
- Announcements
- Remembering Sekou Sundiata
- In Conversation: A Chat Between Brenda Coultas and Akilah Oliver
- In Search of the Goldmouth Poets: Susie Timmons
- We Mimic the Poisonings: A Brief Introduction to the Poetry of Ed Roberson
- Book Reviews: Bill Berkson, Heriberto Yépez, Elaine Equi, Hannah Weiner, James Thomas Stevens, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, Susan Briante, Four From Japan, Thomas Weatherly
- Visuals: Cover Art: Marc Andre Robinson
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#211 April/June 2007
- Announcements
- From The Past 12, 33, 34 Years Ago In The Newsletter
- World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Brooklyn, The Catskills, Hattiesburg, Iran, Granada, Ljubljana, Los Angeles, Petaluma, Philadelphia, Russia, Tangier, Tokyo, Vancouver, Washington DC
- The Director Looks Around A Conversation With Outgoing Artistic Director Anselm Berrigan
- Knowing Is Not Enough An Interview With John Trudell
- Book Reviews: Kimberly Lyons, Chuck Stebelton, Alice Notley, Andrew Epstein, Charles Bernstein, Sparrow Up Is Up, But So Is Down
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#210 February/March 2007
- Announcements
- Brad Will 1970-2006
- Kari Edwards 1954-2006
- From The Past 13, 18, 32, 33, 34 Years Ago In The Newsletter
- World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Austin, Boston, Buffalo, The Catskills, Denver, El Paso, Fargo, Los Angeles, Lincoln, Marfa, Mexico City, Tangier, Vancouver, Washington DC
- Common Interests, Uncommon Hope A Conversation With Howard Zinn
- Robin Blaser’s Cosmic Companionship Of The Real
- Charles Bernstein’s Afterword To The Holy Forest: Collected Poems Of Robin Blaser
- Book Reviews: Amanda Nadelberg, Joe Elliot, Padscha Tuntha-Obas, Ed Roberson, Lytle Shaw, Samih Al Qasim, Valerie Fox, Anne Porter, Robert Creeley
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#209 December 2006/January 2007
- Announcements
- From The Past 6, 12, 21, 26 Years Ago In The Newsletter
- World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Albany, The Bay Area, Brooklyn, The Catskills, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Petaluma, Philadelphia, Providence, Seattle, Tucson, The Twin Cities
- Why Most Poetry Is So Boring, Again By Amiri Baraka
- The Politics Of “Politics” A Conversation With Heretical Texts Editor Bill Marsh
- Book Reviews: Tom Clark, Robert Fitterman & Dirk Rowntree, Nathaniel Mackey, E. Tracy Grinnell, Benjamin Hollander, Gloria Frym, Jen Benka, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Maureen Owen
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#208 October/November 2006
- Announcements
- From The Past 33, 32, 20, 10 & 9 Years Ago In The Newsletter
- World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Albany, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Brooklyn, The Catskills, Chicago, England, Germany, Indiana, The Netherlands, Nicaragua, Petaluma, Philadelphia, Portland, Spain, Washington DC
- On This Tortured But Beautiful Planet A Conversation With Quincy Troupe & Victor Hernandez Cruz
- Book Reviews: Pablo Javier, Juliana Spahr, Brenda Hillman, Alice Notley, Simon Pettet, Patricia Spears Jones,
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#207 April/May 2006
- Announcements
- Remembering Barbara Guest by Ann Lauterbach
- World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Albany, Austin, Brooklyn, The Catskills, Chicago, Milwaukee, Petaluma, Philadelphia, Seattle, Thailand, The Twin Cities
- State Of New Orleans: Post-Katrina By Megan Burns
- Maggie Nelson & Wayne Koestenbaum In Conversation
- Joe Elliot Vs. The Thai Action Team
- Book Reviews: Kenneth Koch, Kamau Brathwaite, Stacy Szymaszek, Reed Bye, Aaron Kunin, Etel Adnan
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#206 February/March 2006
- Announcements
- From The Director
- New Year’s Thank Yous
- From The Editor
- An Appreciation Of Our Token
- Farewell Tory Dent
- World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Albany, Austin, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, The Catskills, Italy, Ithaca, Petaluma, Philadelphia, San Diego, Seattle, Slovakia, Spain, The Twin Cities
- The Noam Chomsky Interview [Part 2] With Brendan Lorber
- The Romantic-Modern Lyric: Poetry For The Non-Poet By Dale Smith
- Book Reviews: Ted Berrigan, Emily Xyz, Julie Carr, Carla Harryman, Mary Burger, Tyehimba Jess
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#205 December 2005/January 2006
- Announcements
- From The Director
- W.H. Auden Tuna Mold To Perform At New Years
- From The Editor
- From The Readers
- Katrina Gratitude
- Props To Katz
- World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Albany, Austin, Boston, Buffalo, Florence, Ithaca, LA, Petaluma, Philadelphia, The Twin Cities, The Catskills
- New Years Marathon The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Writer: Marathoning With Todd Colby
- From The Past 12, 15, 31, 34 Years Ago In The Newsletter
- The Noam Chomsky Interview [Part 1] With Brendan Lorber
- Olsonnow With Michael Kelleher & Ammiel Alcalay
- Book Reviews: Barbara Guest, Eleni Sikelianos, Jeni Olin, Brandon Downing, Michael Ives
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