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	<title>Close Calls With Nonsense</title>
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	<description>A poetry blog by Stephen Burt</description>
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		<title>back to ny&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talking poetry here this Thursday, then reading my own poems here this Friday. See you there?
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		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2011/02/20/back-to-ny/</link>
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		<title>Blacksmith House, and more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading at Blacksmith House in Cambridge with the amazing Allan Peterson this Monday Feb. 7 at 8pm.
And I&#8217;m in The Nation, writing about Yeats!
Also in The New Republic, writing about Carl Dennis. I like his new book.                
And finally, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2011/02/04/blacksmith-house-and-more/</link>
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		<title>why, I&#8217;ll be&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;introducing the finalists in criticism for the National Book Critics Circle this Saturday night in New York.
I&#8217;ll also be reading from my own poems with Allan Peterson, who is terrific, at Blacksmith House in Cambridge on Monday Feb. 7.
Do consider attending either event, if you&#8217;ve got no other plans.
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		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2011/01/18/why-ill-be/</link>
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		<title>evening out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first issue of the new online journal Evening Will Come appears to consist (so far) entirely of a fine lyric essay by C. D. Wright: read to the end to see what she views as the primary, or most powerful, single word.
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		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2011/01/06/evening-out/</link>
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		<title>in hyde park (for robert von hallberg)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just received, and something I&#8217;m really going to be very happy to read: the new Chicago Review, whose essays&#8217;n'criticism section amounts to a festschrift for Robert von Hallberg. You can&#8217;t read the essays online&#8211; you&#8217;ll have to buy the issue, or read it in some good library&#8211; but you can read new poems by Rae [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/12/28/in-hyde-park-for-robert-von-hallberg/</link>
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		<title>on the south bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trying to track down something in a literary magazine you can&#8217;t find, and one your library doesn&#8217;t own? If the magazine is British, you&#8217;re in luck: I had to look up something in the much-lamented Thumbscrew and there&#8217;s lots of &#8217;screws at the Southbank Centre Poetry Library. Also Angel Exhaust for the avant-gardiste, a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/12/28/on-the-south-bank-in-hyde-park/</link>
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		<title>a mike chasar christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my new favorite poetry bloggers, Mike Chasar at Poetry and Popular Culture, has been puncturing pretensions for a while now: in his, or their (friends do it too) latest, we see how and why the Hallmark card might surpass even (say) Susan Howe, or Pound, in requiring its projected readers to focus on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/12/27/a-mike-chasar-christmas/</link>
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		<title>never went away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Merry holidays! Here&#8217;s a useful interview with Rae Armantrout, whom another blog has now declared our poet of the year.
And here I am writing about Timothy Donnelly, surely one of the best books of the year. Watch this space.
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		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/12/23/never-went-away/</link>
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		<title>from Minneapolis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Both the podcast and the transcript for part of our NBCC event in Minneapolis (&#8220;What can a book review do for a book?&#8221;) are now online.
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		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/11/26/from-minneapolis/</link>
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		<title>owl music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New poem commissioned as part of a series from Jonathan Farmer of At Length magazine: I like commissions, and I like this project, which also has (among others) Juliana Spahr and the Singaporean quasi-formalist Jee Leong Koh, whose book I&#8217;ve been enjoying&#8230; here&#8217;s the whole thing.
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		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/11/17/owl-music/</link>
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