Creeley on Dylan

Go here for the 3-minute MP3. Go here for more recordings from the same conversation. via Al Filreis

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Neon Highway Poetry Magazine presents 'CRUNCH'

Sunday 25th January, 4.30 - 5.50pm

• Alice Lenkiewicz
• Nigel Harrison
• Scott Thurston
• Patricia Farrell
• Andrew Taylor
• Robert Sheppard
• MattFallaize
• Ailsa Cox

Tate Liverpool, 4th Floor Admission is free.

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Phil Davenport Book Launch

Friday 30th January, 7-9pm The launch of Philip Davenport's new poetry book about everything. Refreshments will be served. The book will be on sale on the night for a special preview price of £9.99. Chinese Art Centre 7, Thomas Street Market Buildings, Manchester, M4 1EU

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Prelinger Library

The Prelinger Library is a private research library open to the public, located in downtown San Francisco. Its collections encompass some 50,000 books, periodical volumes and printed ephemera. The Prelinger Library is currently curating this online collection of public domain materials in key subject areas.

I'm digging Modern Art In Store Fronts. via Caustic Cover Critic

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ACCRETION PANEL 1. FROM VENUS & OTHER NOISES BY STEVE WILLEY

  This poem has appeared in the Veer Off Anthology (Veer Books, 2008)

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Introductions, From Venus & Other Noises By Steve Willey

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Backyard Poems by Richard Barrett

Features work previously published in Parameter, Blazevox, The Delinquent, The Ugly Tree, Great Works, The Pygmy Giant and Apt. Copies can be obtained by contacting author at: barrett.richard1@googlemail.com.

See also: Richard Barrett's blog.

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E·ratio Is Reading For Issue 12

E·ratio is reading for issue 12, the spring 2009 issue. Please send cover letter, bio, and poems together in one .doc or .rtf attachment. No simultaneous submissions. E·ratio publishes poetry in the postmodern idioms with an emphasis on the intransitive. editor@eratiopostmodernpoetry.com E·ratio is edited by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.

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It Used To Be The Book Of The Life, Now It's The Life Of The Book

Also, check out his reading habits. via The Book Bench

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Inauguration

The phrase ‘shit sandwich’ springs to mind here. GObama! On the shallowest note, I dig the coat he wore. That’s a badass coat. I don't envy him. He has to live up to the words he speaks. Poets just have to speak them. Good luck good sir. On the subject of poetry, here is a transcript of the inaugural poem by Elizabeth Alexander, who had the unenviable task of following The Great Orator. Still, it's probably the biggest audience for poetry since Knebworth. I don't know if they got the line breaks right.

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