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Ellen Miller-Mack
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Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Diane Seuss’s Four-Legged Girl today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Meridian by Kathleen Jesme
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Kathleen Jesme’s Meridian today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
Ellen MIller-mack reviews Carol Ann Duffy’s Rapture today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Dark Elderberry Branch is a collaboration between two living poets and one who is dead but fully present. Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa (former Soviet Union, in the Ukraine), learning English at the age of 16 when his family…
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Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by Native Americans
Visiting the Taos Pueblo (“an ancient community continuously inhabited for 100 years”) on San Geronimo Day, I was frightened by the Sacred Clowns (Koshares). The list of rules for visitors explained that these fit young men roving about in traditional…
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Met a Lunatic on Craigslist
But even here, vertigo and ambivalence dominate, and I find myself searching the poems for the kinetic energy of a walker in the city; heel marks and muddy droplets. I want to overhear conversations on the streets.