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		<title>Beyond Goodwill and Language: Why Ecopoetics Should Embrace Policy Wonks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Spaley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post is part of conversation with poet and friend Moriah Purdy. The first post can be read over at Here Now, Myriads.) Moriah has already provided some good working definitions of ecopoetics already, so I don’t have much to add on that front. My primary interest in ecopoetics is how it intersects with policy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=84983&amp;post=442&amp;subd=paxamericana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Lost as an End to Mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Spaley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lost]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: This post contains spoilers about the series finale. The usual precautions apply.] Update: See also Tracie&#8217;s excellent re-cap/analysis over at Jezebel. I think Charlie Anders&#8217;s response to the finale of Lost over at io9 is representative of the reaction many other Lost fans had last night: In the end, it&#8217;s hard not to see Lost as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=84983&amp;post=432&amp;subd=paxamericana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whither Pax?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 00:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Spaley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started this blog, I had hopes that I could make it a group blog&#8211;not just because it would make the writing load easier on myself, but because there are a lot of areas that I find very interesting beyond my narrow personal and academic experience (e.g. science, law, philosophy).  I was also much more foreign policy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=84983&amp;post=419&amp;subd=paxamericana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Blogs You Should Be Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Spaley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my long blogging absence I&#8217;ve negleted to highlight two great blogs about poetry and the process of writing poetry: 1. First Book Interviews: Keith Montesano interviews Rauan Klassnik in his 21st interview for the series (while in the midst of getting his own first book published).  Choice excerpt: Yes there’s certainly a lot of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=84983&amp;post=404&amp;subd=paxamericana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Globalization from the Poets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Spaley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Schmall has a post over at HTML Giant that argues that poetry&#8217;s larger cultural irrelevance makes it a useful site of resistance against globalization.  Schmall&#8217;s description of globalization (and capitalism in general) however, is mostly caricature bolstered by some hand-waving and talk about the power of imagination.  The central mistake is, I think, an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=84983&amp;post=401&amp;subd=paxamericana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Writing Programs</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/in-defense-of-writing-programs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Spaley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, this isn&#8217;t technically a defense of writing programs; I don&#8217;t think writing programs need defending*.  Rather, it&#8217;s a quick look at what I believe to be some of the unexamined (or at least not widely cited) benefits of writing programs.  In a much discussed review essay of Mark McGurl&#8217;s The Program Era, Louis Menand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=84983&amp;post=395&amp;subd=paxamericana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Question About Literature and Political Philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Spaley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And since people are thinking about literature I&#8217;ll take this opportunity to ask a question I&#8217;ve been considering recently: Why doesn&#8217;t more literary criticism make mention of rights-based liberalism?  Not that I expect a lot of lit professors to approvingly cite Rawls, but he doesn&#8217;t even get name checked.  This might seem like a silly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=84983&amp;post=387&amp;subd=paxamericana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brief Thoughts On Fiction</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/brief-thoughts-on-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Spaley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have a lot to say in response to Matt Zeitlin&#8217;s post on fiction and James Woods&#8217; disdain for the &#8220;hysterical realism&#8221; of Rushdie, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, et al.  I read more poetry than I do fiction, so I&#8217;d gladly defer to the opinions of people who have read many of these authors and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=84983&amp;post=383&amp;subd=paxamericana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Perils of the Low Information Voter</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/the-perils-of-the-low-information-voter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Spaley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bailout plan fails in the House. And hey, the Dow closes in -700 territory. So that&#8217;s exciting.   On the political side, I can understand the behavior of representatives who claim to be receiving calls 100:1 against the bailout. They&#8217;re worried about protecting their seats and watching as their vote is painted as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=84983&amp;post=380&amp;subd=paxamericana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live-Blogging the Debate: The Blogs to Read</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/live-blogging-the-debate-the-blogs-to-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Spaley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be busy at one of the last Fall For the Book readings tonight so I won&#8217;t be following the debate as closely as I&#8217;d like.  You, however, should follow along with these fine bloggers who will be giving you some of the best foreign policy and political commentary as they live-blog the event: Ned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=84983&amp;post=378&amp;subd=paxamericana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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