Poetry
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Pretending to Pretend
Just as a body, like water, retains no constant shape, so in memory there are no constant conditions.
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Reconnaissance by Carl Phillips
Alana Folsom reviews Carl Phillips’s Reconnaissance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Honest Engine by Kyle Dargan
Lauren Swearingen-Steadwell reviews Kyle Dargan’s Honest Engine today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Eat Your Peas
Having some novelist (or poet or playwright) assert an individual consciousness—in and of itself— is a profoundly threatening act if you’re a dictator.
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impossible bottle by Claudia Emerson
Ellen F. Brown reviews Claudia Emerson’s impossible bottle today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Father of the Arrow is the Thought by Christopher Deweese
Julie Marie Wade reviews Christopher DeWeese’s The Father of the Arrow is the Thought today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Diane Seuss’s Four-Legged Girl today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
[Boston] was a map out of the damage of my self-awareness and into some new evidence of beauty.
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About That Kenny Goldsmith Piece in the New Yorker
We ran a blog post earlier today about Alec Wilkinson’s pretty crap piece about Kenny Goldsmith in the New Yorker which we characterized as “refreshingly even-handed.” That description is only accurate if you define even-handed as a several-thousand word tongue-bath in the…


