Top 21 Posts of 2021
We share our twenty-one most-read pieces of 2021!
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...moreOur next Letter in the Mail is from Kelli Russell Agodon!
...moreWe share our Best of the Net 2021 nominees!
...moreLike a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.
...moreKelli Russell Agodon discusses her new collection, DIALOGUES WITH RISING TIDES.
...moreI listen, until all the sunflowers have been put to bed.
...moreCoupling When I said, I don’t remember, what I meant was I wasn’t paying attention, or Quiet, I’m reading. Similar to when I said, We should clean the living room, what I meant was, Get your crap off the couch
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Kelli Russell Agodon’s Hourglass Museum today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreIn Linda Pastan’s thirteenth book of poetry, Traveling Light, we enter into themes of aging, dying, time’s ticking clock, and the natural world.
...moreMissed Connection You: Bartender at the left wing bar, sleeves rolled up, preaching happiness, Fredrich Nietzsche. Small scar across your chin. We high-fived, nodded about get-out-the-vote rallies, about Gore, Clinton, and Obama.
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