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Harriet, aka the Poetry Foundation blog, has posted an excerpt of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s recent chat with T. R. Hummer. Watch as I learn what the Bald Man Fallacy is and more. Fortunately, they didn’t quote my alternate reading of the poem.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with T. R. Hummer about his poetry collection Ephemeron.
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears on why he chose Amy Newman’s Dear Editor as the December selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club discussion with Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, in its entirety:
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan about her poetry collection Bear, Diamonds and Crane.
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Brian Spears on why he chose T. R. Hummer’s Ephemeron as the November selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Meghan O’Rourke about her poetry collection Once.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aracelis Girmay about her poetry collection Kingdom Animalia.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club discussion with Aracelis Girmay, in its entirety:
...moreThe author of this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection, Meghan O’Rourke is in the new issue of the Paris Review. You can read her poem, “Theory vs Practice” here to get excited for this.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Lea Graham about her collection Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You
This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with Lea Graham. Every month The Rumpus Poetry Book Club hosts a discussion online with the club members and the author, and we post an edited version online as an interview.
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Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia as the August selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
We are excited to announce Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia as the August selection for the August Rumpus Poetry Book Club. This poetry collection, published by BOA Editions is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2011. Author Chris Abani deemed it, “a beautiful evocation of the bittersweet complexities of the human heart and a treatise on on the ever evolving journey to understanding and transcendence.”
This is Girmay’s second collection of poems.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Harmony Holiday about her debut collection Negro League Baseball.
Rumpus Poetry Book Club board member Sean Singer on why he chose Lea Graham’s Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You as the July selection for the club.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tracy K. Smith about her collection Life on Mars.
Harmony Holiday, the poet pick for this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book selection, was featured in the Boston Review for National Poetry Month, this past April.
There are multi-sensory ways to experience her poetry and thus more reasons to get excited about reading her work (it comes with an audio component).
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Tracy Smith’s Life on Mars is a strong, surprising, and often beautiful book. Its themes include family births and deaths, outer space as a metaphor for inner space, and broader political questions regarding violence and power.
Every month, the Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with the author of the book we’ve been discussing. This month is extraordinary, however, because our poet, Dean Young, had a heart transplant on April 15, just over two weeks ago.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club has been discussing Dean Young’s Fall Higher this month, and given that Young had a heart transplant on the 15th, I’d basically assumed we were going to have to postpone. Nope. We’ll be chatting with him tomorrow, as planned.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club interviews Joseph Harrington about his recent collection Things Come On.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Noelle Kocot about her collection The Bigger World.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kirsten Kaschock about her book A Beautiful Name for a Girl.
This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with Kirsten Kaschock. Every month The Rumpus Poetry Book Club hosts a discussion online with the club members and the author, and we post an edited version online as an interview (read the unedited transcript here).
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her collection Lucky Fish.