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Nick Cave Monday #32: “West Country Girl”
What do you do when you think a girl is hot and you really want to get with her? You write her a song. Nick Cave did that for PJ…
National Poetry Month Day 21: “Letters from Saint Francis” by Joshua Heineman
Letters from Saint Francis
Notable Los Angeles: 4/20-4/26
Saturday 4/20: The L.A. Times Festival of Books is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Rumpus will be there, sharing a booth with Tin House. Come say hi and…
Links I Like
Does Twitter count as links? I’ve decided yes, it does. This week I felt grateful that I follow Saeed Jones and Thomas Page McBee. In “Into the Fold,” Thomas Page…
National Poetry Month Day 20: “Ruminations on cud from five of my fullest stomachs” by Matt Mauch
Ruminations on cud from five of my fullest stomachs
Lullaby (with Exit Sign) by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Tova Gardner reviews Hadara Bar-Nadav's Lullaby (with Exit Sign) today in Rumpus Poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 19: “The Sturdiness” by Sina Queyras
The Sturdiness For a long time I was thinking that I had to do more. The way a dancer looks away from the camera.
National Poetry Month Day 18: “b my apocalypse” by Laura Zaylea
b m y a p o c a l y p s e b m y a p o c a l y p s e
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Boston Stands in a Sahara of Blood
“The old South Boston Aquarium stands / in a Sahara of snow now,” begins Robert Lowell’s masterpiece, “For the Union Dead,” a poem about race and class in Boston. To…