Poetry
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National Poetry Month Day 24: “After Aftermath” by Cate Marvin
After Aftermath Orphaned boys plus my mean calculations. Orphan boys plus desire equals their long bodies. How they sucked summer-long water off a garden hose from beside the trailers. Their mean mothers weary of them sharing rooms in mental hospitals:…
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National Poetry Month Day 23: “Embers of Smoldering Homes” by Sean Singer
Embers of Smoldering Homes It is a major war from a manufacturing plant near Ciudad Juárez, a concrete dust smell from the maquiladoras cools. There is a pool of liquid forming on the stone floor. When Érika Gándara, the only…
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Large White House Speaking by Mark Irwin
Alexis Orgera reviews Mark Irwin’s Large White House Speaking today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey Chapter 2
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
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 the pupils hardening of nipples thickening of mucus within the…
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National Poetry Month Day 21: “War With Computers” by Jill McDonough
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, but IEDs aren’t fair, either. We watch day and night.…
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National Poetry Month Day 20: “Google Search: ‘Julie Marie Wade’” by Julie Marie Wade
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 a funeral mass, send flowers to the family that survives…
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National Poetry Month Day 19: “Astronomy of Fishes & Emily Dickinson (1986)” by Adrian Matejka
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 & the whole country sky is as recyclable & sparse…
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Vow by Kristina Marie Darling
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
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_ draws out an admixture of folklore and animus_ plus a…
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Dangerous Goods by Sean Hill
Wesley Rothman reviews Sean Hill’s Dangerous Goods today in Rumpus Poetry.
