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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey Chapter 2

  • David Biespiel
  • April 22, 2014
Every time you write a poem, you're learning to become a poet once again. Your writing imitates not the banal sequence from life to death, but instead imitates a descent into and out of a new womb of clarity.
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National Poetry Month Day 22: “The Great Loves of Our Lives” by Julie Enszer

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  • April 22, 2014
The Great Loves of Our Lives Begin with the body desire manifests itself in the body: the flutter of the heart the nervous shake of a hand the dilation of…
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National Poetry Month Day 21: “War With Computers” by Jill McDonough

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  • April 21, 2014
War with Computers “We don’t make war with computers.” —Captain Kirk in Star Trek, “A Taste of Armageddon,” 1966 Now we hover at 5000 feet. It’s not a fair fight,…
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National Poetry Month Day 20: “Google Search: ‘Julie Marie Wade'” by Julie Marie Wade

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  • April 20, 2014
Google Search: “Julie Marie Wade” I am dead in Mississippi— dead & Catholic. A cheerleading coach who passed suddenly on Wednesday night from “causes unknown.” In Oxford, they mourn with…
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National Poetry Month Day 19: “Astronomy of Fishes & Emily Dickinson (1986)” by Adrian Matejka

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  • April 19, 2014
Astronomy of Fishes & Emily Dickinson (1986) One eye squeezed like a bag phone between shoulder & ear. Another eye stuck in a paper towel tube like it’s a telescope…
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Vow by Kristina Marie Darling

  • Lisa Cheby
  • April 19, 2014
Lisa Cheby reviews Vow by Kristina Marie Darling and Music for another life by Darling and Max Avi Kaplan today in Rumpus Poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 18: “My Brother” by Carmen Gimenez Smith

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  • April 18, 2014
My Brother My brother _is__ a savior who can torpedo through privilege with an artistic stun gun he’s a tempest saturating the city He makes a scar in the earth_…
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Dangerous Goods by Sean Hill

  • Wesley Rothman
  • April 18, 2014
Wesley Rothman reviews Sean Hill's Dangerous Goods today in Rumpus Poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 17: “The Mother In This Poem Is Me or You or Your Mother” by Wendy Chin-Tanner

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  • April 17, 2014
The Mother In This Poem Is Me or You or Your Mother mother is a falling star a bead of sweat of blood of bread our daily bread on which…
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National Poetry Month Day 16: “The electric body” by Matthew Siegel

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  • April 16, 2014
The electric body changes like a sky bleeding peach, gray feathers and smoke –                                …
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M x T by Sina Queyras

  • Julie R. Enszer
  • April 16, 2014
Julie Enszer reviews Sina Queyras's M x T today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Book of Poems I Loved: “Death Tractates” by Brenda Hillman

  • Matthew Zapruder
  • April 15, 2014
The poet does what poets do: reactivates words, makes odd associations, connects things that do not ordinarily belong together in order to create deeper meaning.
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