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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 9 Post-Election Political Poems You Must Read Before You Die

I’m writing this on Tuesday, November 6, Election Day. Full disclosure, today I will vote to reelect the president. As John F. Kennedy once said, “You can milk a cow…

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“Feather”: A Rumpus Original Poem by Deborah Ager

Feather Somehow, I thought you’d want to eat alone, A state you’d grown to master—brandy glass, A man behind your chair to fill your plate, A girl to bring you…

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“What Is Amazing” by Heather Christle

What Is Amazing by Heather Christle is another illustration of my frustration with the word “critic,” why I think “appreciator” is a closer approximation and why I’m still open to…

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Why I Chose Cleopatra Mathis’s “Book of Dog” for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club

Camille T. Dungy on why she selected Book of Dog by Cleopatra Mathis for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club in November.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Searching for Sylvia Plath

Here’s a lede that might send you to your room with the vapors: “As a rule the work of women poets is marked by intensity of feeling and fineness of…

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Crossing State Lines: An American Renga edited by Bob Homan and Carol Muske-Dukes

I first discovered Renga: A Chain of Poems (Brazillier, 1972) in a used bookstore in New York during my first year of graduate school. I was transfixed.

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Institute of Indian Arts Celebrates 50th Anniversary

October marks the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Indian Arts (IAIA). It’s the only 4-year college in America that is completely dedicated to Native American studies. At The Poetry Foundation,…

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“The Tornado Collects the Animals”: a Rumpus Original Poem by Catherine Pierce

The Tornado Collects the Animals The tornado likes animals because they pay attention. The tornado sees the dogs howling up from rippling yards, the cows huddled mutely against one another,…

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“The Girls of Peculiar” by Catherine Pierce

There is a canon of cinema that revolves around girls leaving girlhood, and finding themselves young and nubile, ready (so they think) to embrace their future as women. There’s the…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Why I’m Quitting Ezra Pound

Ever heard that gobsmacking troubadourist Ezra Pound read his elaborate, funkified sestina, “Sestina: Altafore,” in a voice that is one part American-as-European, swilling-with-the-rolling-R’s accent and cantorian swoons and another part…

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“Southern Wind, Clear Sky”: A Rumpus Original Poem by Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney

Southern Wind, Clear Sky – Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney

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“Robinson Alone” by Kathleen Rooney

First things first: you don’t have to be a fan of Weldon Kees to enjoy this book. Shameful confession: until I read the note that precedes the table of contents,…

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