Lit-Link Round-up
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Something Wrong with Her by Cris Mazza
Mazza wants to raise the issue prominently, but not to resolve it. In a way, she seeks to create for us the discomfort, the lack of resolution she feels in her own life.
The Last Book I Loved: The Lists of the Past
Elizabeth Byrne explains why THE LISTS OF THE PAST by Julie Hayden is the last book she loved.
Palimpsest by Kristina Marie Darling
Anne Champion reviews Kristina Marie Darling's Palimpsest today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 10 Burdens for American Poetry
As with the myth of America, America’s poets believe a poem should go from rags to riches. And yet, why so much surprise when it actually happens? There is more…
‘Why Can’t Poets Write Poems as Good as a Jay-Z Song?’: Posthumanism and Poetry
This month’s blogger on the Poetry Foundations’s blog, Tyrone Williams, shares his thoughts on post-humanism as it relates to technology’s effects on students and readers of poetry. He writes:
Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene
Barbara Berman reviews Dana Greene's Denise Levertov: A Poet's LIfe today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Brenda Hillman
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Brenda Hillman about trance work, glintings, and radical animism in Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the last in a tetralogy of books about the four elements.
The Lonely Voice #25: Winter in September, On Breece D’J Pancake
Stories fail if you only read them once. You’ve got to meet a story again and again, in different moods, at different eras of your life.
We Come Elemental by Tamiko Beyer
Sean Singer reviews Tamiko Beyer's We Come Elemental today in Rumpus Poetry.
Lit-Link Round-up
Abby Geni of The Rumpus Book Club will be chatting with club members tomorrow…today we have the phenomenal Karen Bender talking with Abby to wet your whistle. (Um, I think…
THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: The Cost of Living
Anna March explains why THE COST OF LIVING by Rob Roberge is the last book she loved.