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Paul Alexander

By Stan Persky | July 14, 2001

The latest installment of Stan Persky’s The Short Version: Paul Alexander.

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After Lorca

By Stan Persky | July 5, 2001

Stan Persky offers us the fourth part of his ongoing series. This one is about the poet Jack Spicer, and is titled, as is one of Spicer’s books, After Lorca

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Of African Descent

By Stan Persky | June 19, 2001

The Third of Stan Persky’s serial we’re running under the working title of The Short Version,

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Adolescence

By Stan Persky | June 15, 2001

The second of our serialization of Stan Persky’s The Short Version. (The first can be found in the probe section of the archives).

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MACHINE AS DESTINY

By Dzevad Karahasan | June 5, 2001

Bosnian Writer Dzevad Karahasan calculates the old and new possibilities of European history and literature

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ABOUTISM

By Stan Persky | May 30, 2001

Stan Persky begins a short-hand version of human and other kinds of history, beginning with a new movement in poetry called Aboutism

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Literature, Language and the Destruction of Cities

By Sharon Thesen | March 15, 2001

Sharon Thesen has some thoughts about what happened in Yugoslavia, and what it reveals about the abuse of language

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JANIS: (Memphis Meltdown)

By Bill King | February 23, 2001

Bill King recalls a Memphis moment with Janis Joplin

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Six Reasons to Write …

By Brian Fawcett | February 9, 2001

Brian Fawcett thinks about where writing comes from, and where it’s headed

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The Tides are Caused by the Moon’s Gravity, Not By Ours

By Brian Fawcett | January 30, 2001

Brian Fawcett Takes a Personal Measure of the Future of Poetry

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