Poetry
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National Poetry Month Day 29: “Deconstruction: Citizenship” by Kenji Liu
Deconstruction: Citizenship Have you ever been a member of or in any way associated either directly or indirectly with? Indirectly a biometric hazard, activate. Associated with a cold rubber stamp. Are we within earshot of a dissection table? Your eagle…
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Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook by David Meltzer
Patrick James Dunagan reviews David Meltzer’s Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poem as Whistling Father
Isn’t it worth wondering, then, where does a poem take you after it calls you in, calls you from your life into your creative psyche?
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National Poetry Month Day 27: “Scientific” by Marisa Siegel
Scientific A pond / reflecting / koi swimming slipping through strands / of refraction. Cue shadow and its companion. The pathology justifies nothing / the disease has created.
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National Poetry Month Day 26: “The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road” by Ada Limón
The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road That we might walk out into the woods together, and afterwards make toast in our sock feet, still damp from the fern’s wet grasp, the spiky needles stuck to our legs, that’s all…
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National Poetry Month Day 25: “Poem For Her In Time” by Christian Anton Gerard
Poem For Her In Time –After Her and Wallace Stevens I. Thirteen days. This morning I counted, read Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
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National Poetry Month Day 24: “Imagénes” by Juan Sánchez Peláez, translated by Guillermo Parra
Imágenes I Tú, que asímismo en la copa de tu verbo desbordas el líquido. Yo, que despeño tu grito
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Red Deer by Anne Marie Macari
Dana Johnson reviews Anne Marie Macari’s Red Deer today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Nicky Beer
In Episode 10 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, poet Nicky Beer chats about her new collection, The Octopus Game, turning subject matter into art, and how we’re all just shape-shifting actors trying to get through the day.
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National Poetry Month Day 23: “Pre-Need” by Stacey Lynn Brown
Pre-Need In the same cemetery where Uncle Remus lies, my father’s crypt awaits, his mother,
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National Poetry Month Day 22: “The Limit” by Adam McGovern
The Limit “I don’t see them,” I saidwhen my mom told me men were landing on the moonbut I wasn’t surprised they were, and why would I be,I was expecting themat that age, in that era when you had no…