Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Judy Bolton-Fasman examines her Cuban-American parents in the Saturday Essay, in particular her mother’s struggle to read Don Quijote in its original Spanish for her master’s degree. Her parents’ heritage…
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Henri Cole
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Nothing to Declare by Henri Cole
Jessie Carty reviews Henri Cole's Nothing to Declare today in Rumpus Poetry.
Soil into Poetry
This is what writers do–we keep each other warm–during periods of solitude when we are writing. Henri Cole eulogizes his friend James Lord in a piece in The New Yorker,…
Strolling the Streets of Paris
Stroll the streets of Paris with the New Yorker’s Henri Cole in his essay “Street of the Iron Po(e)t.” Cole’s essays often read like poetic journal entries as he discusses…
You Weren’t Born By Yourself
In Touch, Cole once again breaks into new territories of form, subject, and voice, channeling pleasure and pain into a collection of poems that triumphs in the face of their…