Each day from January 7 through January 20, Rumpus Original Poems will feature poetry written in response to the coming presidential inauguration. Today’s poem is from Brian Oliu.
Official inaugural poems are a strange beast. There have only been five of them and the one we recognize as the first, Robert Frost’s “The Gift Outright,” wasn’t composed for…
Over at The Collapsar, Brian Oliu pens a stunning essay on writing, running, and changing one’s perception of both the body and the prose: This, to me, is what a…