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A Conjoined Book by Karla Kelsey

  • Kent Shaw
  • April 9, 2014
Kent Shaw reviews Karla Kelsey's A Conjoined Book today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #51: Pet Psychic Marla Steele

  • Beverly Parayno
  • April 8, 2014
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

  • David Biespiel
  • April 8, 2014
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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  • April 8, 2014
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National Poetry Month Day 7: “Such Unfortunates” by Sophie Klahr

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  • April 7, 2014
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

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • April 7, 2014
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

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  • April 6, 2014
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!

  • Gina Frangello
  • April 6, 2014
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

  • Wendy C. Ortiz
  • April 5, 2014
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

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  • April 5, 2014
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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If I Don’t Breathe How Do I Sleep by Joe Wenderoth

  • Eric Dean Wilson
  • April 5, 2014
Eric Dean Wilson reviews Joe Wenderoth's If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep today in Rumpus Poetry.
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THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: WONDER BOYS BY MICHAEL CHABON

  • Matt Debenham
  • April 5, 2014
Michael Chabon's career is often the work of a writer hell-bent on destroying the line between "literary" and "genre," and his most famous work is an epic adventure novel about comic-book creators.
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