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National Poetry Month Day 9: “Prophecy: After the Dam” by Camille Dungy

Prophecy: After the Dam the floodplains do bloom_____ the horsetail die+++++ the wheatits thousand thousand eyes eyeing a fat future _____nods and nods never fearing the peasants plant potatoes plant turnips___ radish and carrot even…

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A Conjoined Book by Karla Kelsey

Kent Shaw reviews Karla Kelsey's A Conjoined Book today in Rumpus Poetry.

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Mini-Interviews

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #51: Pet Psychic Marla Steele

Each year on my dog Isso’s birthday, I give him the gift of voice: a reading with pet psychics/animal communicators who “talk” to Isso about his likes and dislikes, requests, preferences and physical ailments, if any.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter I

Poetry Wire continues its exploration of how one might become a poet in the modern world, how one traverses between the creative realm and daily experience.

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National Poetry Month Day 8: “Introduction to the Limits of Metaphor (A Love Poem)” by Jeannine Hall Gailey

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National Poetry Month Day 7: “Such Unfortunates” by Sophie Klahr

Such Unfortunates It doesn’t get better, it gets different. Ask God, Clean House, Help Others. Try taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever— with and without solemn…

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SELF-MADE MAN #29: Ghosts

I dodge taxis and drunk college kids near Astor Place and think how sweet to be a man in motion on a Saturday night; man formed of needles and a hundred sweaty locker rooms; a man without translation; a man who invents himself.

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National Poetry Month Day 6: “The Early Minutes of Without” by Michael Klein

The Early Minutes of Without You thought you were spared falling in love with another drunk now that you were sober and could feel the ordinary grain that ran through…

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California or Bust!

This Sunday Rumpus happens to find me arriving in original Rumpus stomping ground, San Francisco, where I’m thrilled to be reading at The Make-Out Room tonight with Janice Cooke Newman…

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WANTED: DEATH LAMENT

the dog born March 30th who I will find 6 months from now to know what it’s like to hurl myself down the mountain for the wind to blow right…

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National Poetry Month Day 5: “ESL” by Jericho Brown

ESL You come with a little Black string tied Around your tongue Knotted to remind Where you came from And why you left Behind photographs Of people whose Names need…

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