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Charles Kruger

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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #3: Clocking The Muse

  • Charles Kruger
  • August 12, 2016
It’s time to write a column, paint a picture, compose a song, draft an outline: whatever. Creative expression doesn’t happen by itself, we have to work at it. You know…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #2: In a World Gone Tilt-a-Whirl

  • Charles Kruger
  • July 29, 2016
Society is falling apart, the daily news seems to say. Living in interesting times, it is all too easy to fear that our work is meaningless.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #1: Are We Amused Yet?

  • Charles Kruger
  • July 15, 2016
Here is something I’ve always believed: Just knowing I am an artist, asserting that identity, is more important than what I produce. It is a victory in itself.
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Your Smallest Bones by Sean Taylor

  • Charles Kruger
  • September 21, 2015
Charles Kruger reviews Your Smallest Bones by Sean Taylor today in Rumpus Books.
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The Opposite of Work by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

  • Charles Kruger
  • July 3, 2013
Charles Kruger reviews Hugh Behm-Steinberg's The Opposite of Work today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Return to the Year Broken Free

  • Charles Kruger
  • September 9, 2011
I wish I could explain to you, to myself, the effect this language has upon me, but I can only say it makes my skin crawl. In a good way.
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Of Course They’re Staring

  • Charles Kruger
  • February 9, 2011
The poems in The Book of Frank capture moments, and they don’t explain themselves. But, cumulatively, they invoke a sense of what it is like to be almost supernaturally sensitive,…
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