Lit-Link Round-up
As a mother of two adopted kids myself, I found Jennifer Gilmore’s HuffPo piece on whether “mothering” differs from “parenting” interesting. Mainly, this piece seems merely a jumping-off point. Biological…
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Notable Los Angeles: 4/13-4/19
National Poetry Month is still in full swing, and the L.A. Times Festival of Books is just around the corner! Saturday 4/13: Poet and short story writer Martha Ronk reads…
Links I Like
The Rumpus Interview With Ted Travelstead! When Ted recalls the funniest thing he has seen firsthand, he shares a memory about his wife and it is obvious that he loves his wife. I found his…
National Poetry Month Day 13: “Ghosts” by Brachah Goykadosh
Ghosts Ghosts who I loved wandering through the glass doors and the turnstiles without seeing me walking swiftly behind them.
It’s No Good by Kirill Medvedev
David Peak reviews Kirill Medvedev's It's No Good today in Rumpus Poetry.
Uncanny Valley by Jon Woodward
Andrew Field reviews Jon Woodward's Uncanny Valley today in Rumpus Poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 11: “Billy Divine” by Adam McGovern
Billy Divine The American Primeval is not the green garden we think we’ve lost it’s stark white cloudless sky above a cinder-gray shack
SELF-MADE MAN #21: Love Your Zombie
Sometimes I get this ragged wind in my chest. It’s a graveyard in there, too: instead of clothes holding my ghost shape, it’s my old self that calls out from beneath bone.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Politics and Post-Modernism?
No one can know for sure what literary historians will make of it, least of all me as I pound out an editorial about poetry every week. But if I…
National Poetry Month Day 10: “Seven Confessions: A Chapbook” by Julie Sheehan
Seven Confessions: A Chapbook
Song and Error by Averill Curdy
Maya Popa reviews Averill Curdy's Song and Error today in Rumpus Poetry.