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National Poetry Month Day 36: “The Lover’s Field Guide to Lesser Coinage” by Sandra Beasley

Was National Poetry Month over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! The Lover’s Field Guide to Lesser Coinage There are eight stycas in a penny, two pennies in…

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National Poetry Month 2012 Lineup

So maybe you’re following our National Poetry Month project and you want to know who else is going to be featured. You’re following, right? I mean, sure you get the…

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The Poems of Jesus Christ, by Willis Barnstone

Born in 1927, Willis Barnstone is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Indiana University and an admired translator . His rendering of The Poems of St John of the…

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National Poetry Month Day 35: “A Double Sestina on Happiness” by Cathy Park Hong

We decide when National Poetry Month is over. A Double Sestina on Happiness Part 1: I should never be happy, the Samsung Chairman’s eldest daughter Eunhee thought as she picked…

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Girl In Cap and Gown by Harriet Levin

Filmgoers this year who saw the documentary The Cave of Forgotten Dreams in 3-D (or not) entered the prehistoric Chauvet caves of Southern France in a stunning modern way. The…

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The Last Poem I Loved: “Reaching Around For You” by D.A. Powell

April is over. We can’t stop these things from happening, no. We’re slipping out of spring into summer, out of busy semesters and National Poetry Month. We’re slipping outside our…

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National Poetry Month Day 32: “Zoo” by Virginia Konchan

We’re never satisfied with the thirty days that April allots us for National Poetry Month, so we’re extending it a bit. Enjoy! Zoo Unbridled, the sick pony traverses listlessly a…

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Gaze by Christopher Howell

In the opening poem of Christopher Howell’s Gaze, “Home Stretch,” he concludes with, “Receive me. Here are my silver / wings, in accordance with custom. Inside of them / leaves…

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Linda Hogan

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Linda Hogan about her poetry collection Indios.

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National Poetry Month Day 31: “Machine Song” by Bruce Snider

We’re never satisfied with just the 30 days that April offers for National Poetry Month, so we’re keeping it going for a little while longer. Machine Song I Xerox what…

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National Poetry Month Day 30: From “Sungone Noon” by Christian Wiman

Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. From “Sungone Noon” One raised…

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A Brilliant Button Without Any Cloth

The promised west in The Oregon Trail IS The Oregon Trail is an amalgam of bootstrap romance, wilderness bordered by suburban sprawl, death, and the ferocity of natural processes.

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