Posts by: Mary Mann
Where I’m Reading
Editor’s Note: Back in June, I made a video for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. I read a poem from our June selection, Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts among the people in a statue on the campus of Drake University. Mary Mann used that as a jumping off point for this new series.
...moreThe Last Poem I Loved: “Faults” by Sara Teasdale
K was the first person to whom I ever told the truth.
Not any old pedestrian truth, like what I ate for lunch or my age—I was capable of that sort of honesty. The truth that I told K was that I had been abused.
...moreMary Mann: The Last Book I Loved, History on a Personal Note: Stories
Two years ago, I ended a five-year relationship with a man who loved me. Very simply, it wasn’t enough anymore.
Responses ranged from distraught to disappointment to disgust. My aunt cried, and my friend D said it was the most hurtful thing someone could do to someone else; to tell them you no longer love them.
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