Poetry
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Last summer I found a small box stashed away in my apartment, a box filled with enough Vicoden to kill me. I would have sworn that I’d thrown them away years earlier, but apparently not. I stared at the white…
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The Cloud That Contained the Lightning by Cynthia Lowen
Michael Klein reviews Cynthia Lowen’s The Cloud That Contained the Lightning today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Practice on Mountains by David Bartone
Erin Miller reviews David Bartone’s Practice on Mountains today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Brushes With by Kristina Marie Darling
Jeff Alessandrelli reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Brushes With today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The State of American Poetry Address
Poets, Poetesses, and Unacknowledged Legislators of Mankind: I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of Poetry. I use the word “unprecedented,” because at no previous time has American poetry been as seriously threatened as it is today.…
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Beyond the Chainlink by Rusty Morrison
Dan Shewan reviews Rusty Morrison’s Beyond the Chainlink today in Rumpus Poetry.
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What We Ask of Flesh by Remica Bingham
Damon Marbut reviews Remica Bingham’s What We Ask of Flesh today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Meridian by Kathleen Jesme
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Kathleen Jesme’s Meridian today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Neon Tryst by Lina Vitkauskas
Virginia Konchan reviews Lina Vitkauskas’s Neon Tryst today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Collected Poems by Ron Padgett
Andrew Field reviews Ron Padgett’s Collected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Book of Poems I Loved: Memory by Laura Jensen
Laura Jensen’s Memory begins with the eponymous poem about a falconer, whose falcon flies after its prey and doesn’t return until evening, surprising its master when it lands in the window clutching its prize. The poem ends with a lovely…
