Blogs
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National Poetry Month Day 15: “The Plagiarist” by Nicky Beer
The Plagiarist I only steal from the ones you’ve never heard of,
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National Poetry Month Day 14: “Sober Lullaby” by Matthew Henriksen
Sober Lullaby Oak tree in time this story makes no recognition A photo will not distance music caught in a wind That entered the room where the child slept
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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 motherhood is a fetishized thing in our culture. When I…
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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 from and signs her latest book of poetry, Partially Kept.…
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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 answer to be a love story. Then he says, “Oh! Just…
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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.
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It’s No Good by Kirill Medvedev
David Peak reviews Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Uncanny Valley by Jon Woodward
Andrew Field reviews Jon Woodward’s Uncanny Valley today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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
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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.
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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 were a betting man, I would wager that the most…