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National Poetry Month, Day 30: “Out of Office Reply: Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead” by Joseph Harrington

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  • April 30, 2011
Joseph Harrington’s Things Come On was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection for March. You can read the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s chat with him here and Camille Dungy’s essay…
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“Luminous Bruises in the Fog”: Book Club Roundup

  • Maddie Oatman
  • April 29, 2011
Earthquakes breeding nuclear meltdowns, tornadoes razing towns in the South, immense tropical storms: the news never fails to feed us weather calamities. That’s why Jim Shepard‘s You Think That’s Bad…
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National Poetry Month, Day 29: “I’m a Poet and I Don’t Know It” by Ariana Reines

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  • April 29, 2011
I’m a Poet and I Don’t Know It I am so broke Maybe I am a poet I wonder.
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National Poetry Month, Day 28: “Casket Sharp” by Saeed Jones

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  • April 28, 2011
Casket Sharp Your soft cough becomes prognosis. Soon, cigarette smoke is the inkblot test of the lung.
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Erin Fleming: The Last Book I Loved, Cassandra at the Wedding

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  • April 27, 2011
I left Cassandra at the Wedding tearily hopeful and good and chastised. I say left, but mean emerged from, because Cassandra is as much a spell or an ocean as…
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National Poetry Month, Day 27: “The Accused Terrorist’s Wife” by Shara Lessley

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  • April 27, 2011
The Accused Terrorist’s Wife The house foreclosed, she’s gone to his father’s home, carting her things, a pair of his shoes, their only daughter, sons. Water springs
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FUNNY WOMEN #52: Literary Classics Summarized as Trashy Romance Novels

  • Rhoda Belleza
  • April 26, 2011
I am writing to assure you that I am still very interested in writing back cover copy for eHarlequin.com.
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Jael Montellano: The Last Book I Loved, Fugue State

  • Jael Montellano
  • April 26, 2011
In classical music, the term “fugue” is defined as a composition in which a particular theme or voice is repeated within the same piece, though changed in form so that…
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National Poetry Month, Day 26: “In the Rafters at Birdie’s Roadhouse” by Alison Pelegrin

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  • April 26, 2011
In the Rafters at Birdie’s Roadhouse 504 forever. Hillbilly princess. FDNY. For a good time a hard man is good to find. Got nookie? Life is too short for bad…
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“In Praise of The Rumpus Book Club”

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • April 25, 2011
“… the Rumpus Book Club is filled with extraordinarily adventurous, well-read, thoughtful omnivores of the literary variety. Everyone who loves to read should find themselves a group like this. I…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #84

  • Ted Wilson
  • April 25, 2011
WOODY WOODPECKER ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Woody Woodpecker.
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Mackenzie Brady: The Last Book I Loved, Tiger, Tiger

  • Mackenzie Brady
  • April 25, 2011
I’m not one for New Years resolutions, but after a year of missing meals and several dates–all in the name of work sweet work–I decided that this year I would…
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