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Julie R. Enszer
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Gender Interrogations in Contemporary Queer Poetics: Six New Poetry Collections
How is poetic form being adapted, altered, and reimagined in contemporary lesbian and queer poetry? Five new poetry collections by lesbian, queer, and trans poets attend keenly to gender and systems surrounding it.
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Great Pain, Great Pleasure: Here All Night, Nightshade, and Blazons
All three remind readers that what is imagined is not always real and the world is not as expected.
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Lesbian Poetry’s Vatic Voices: The Specter of Ecocatastrophe
Change happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
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What It Means to Be Human: The Moon is Almost Full by Chana Bloch
These poems are equal to the task of navigating illness and death, while celebrating the life that remains the morning after.
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Visitations: Gwendolyn Brooks at One Hundred
A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
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Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet by Terese Svoboda
Julie Enszer reviews Terese Svoboda’s Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“Who You Are”: On Anne Carson’s Short Talks and Reprint Editions
Reprints are lost gems. A gorgeous semi-precious stone perhaps in an antiquated or garish setting. A ring at the flea market that sparkles and shines, waiting for someone to repackage it, offer it with a proposal, wear it anew.
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Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015 by Chana Bloch
Julie Enszer reviews Chana Bloch’s Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015 today in Rumpus Poetry.
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When I Was Straight by Julie Marie Wade
Julie Enszer reviews Julie Marie Wade’s When I Was Straight today in Rumpus Poetry.


