Poetry
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Eat Your Peas
Having some novelist (or poet or playwright) assert an individual consciousness—in and of itself— is a profoundly threatening act if you’re a dictator.
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impossible bottle by Claudia Emerson
Ellen F. Brown reviews Claudia Emerson’s impossible bottle today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Father of the Arrow is the Thought by Christopher Deweese
Julie Marie Wade reviews Christopher DeWeese’s The Father of the Arrow is the Thought today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Diane Seuss’s Four-Legged Girl today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
[Boston] was a map out of the damage of my self-awareness and into some new evidence of beauty.
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About That Kenny Goldsmith Piece in the New Yorker
We ran a blog post earlier today about Alec Wilkinson’s pretty crap piece about Kenny Goldsmith in the New Yorker which we characterized as “refreshingly even-handed.” That description is only accurate if you define even-handed as a several-thousand word tongue-bath in the…
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Notes on the Assemblage by Juan Felipe Herrera
Barbara Berman reviews Juan Felipe Herrera’s Notes From the Assemblage today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
Linda Ashok reviews Ada Limón’s Bright Dead Things today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins
I wish I could tell my daughter to please don’t leave her world. To stay where she is as long as she can.
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The Yellow Door by Amy Uyematsu
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Amy Uyematsu’s The Yellow Door today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Silent anatomies by Monica Ong
Kenji Liu reviews Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies today in Rumpus Poetry.
