Poetry
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Body Thesaurus by Jennifer Militello
Julie Marie Wade reviews Jennifer Militello’s Body Thesaurus today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: When JFK Read Poetry
Not that one needs an excuse such as the imminent threat of nuclear armageddon to read poetry, but the early 1960s might have been a good time to turn to poems for comfort, insight, solace, and understanding about the disposition…
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Coming Close: Forty Essays About Philip Levine Edited by Edited by Mari L’esperance & Tomas Q Morin
Barbara Berman reviews Coming Close: Forty Essaya About Philip Levine today in Rumpus Poetry.
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We Lack in Equipment & Control by Jennifer Fortin
Wesley Rothman reviews Jennifer Fortin’s We Lack In Equipment & Control today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Poets’ Roundtable on Person and Persona
Lynn Melnick is moderating a discussion on person and persona in poetry on the Los Angeles Review of Books’ site.
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When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
Ryan Teitman reviews Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Was an Aztec today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Art of Communion
There comes a time in the process of writing a poem when you find yourself putting the reader’s interests and desires ahead of your own as the poet. Not that the reader is a potted plant, I mean. Because the…
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He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs by Leonard Gontarek
A. V. Christie reviews Leonard Gontarek’s He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs today in Rumpus Poetry.
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X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess
Rebecca Hazelton reviews X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Render / An Apocalypse by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Roberto Carlos Garcia reviews Rebecca Gayle Howell’s Render: An Apocalypse today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Request to the Poetry Foundation
As I hope you already know, lots of writers live in less than ideal economic circumstances. Many are self-employed or under-employed, and even with the PPACA (also known as Obamacare) set to go into effect in January, there are still…