poetry
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Fish Gotta Swim by Larry Kearney
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Larry Kearney’s Fish Gotta Swim today in Rumpus Poetry.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About The Avant-Garde
What are we trying to signal to potential readers when we call a work or its author “avant-garde?” The term is lately used to foreground a studied and even exclusionary difficulty in the writing, but what about its potential as…
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The Conversation: Prologue
Dear Reader, For the past year, we, Aziza Barnes and Nabila Lovelace, The Founders of The Conversation, debated how we could create space for folk we love, whose work is critical, in the South. We had been living in New York, which is…
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Poets Unrestrained
Over at Harriet, Uche Nduke writes full-throttle praise and rich description of three poets who influenced him, Norman Fischer, Andrew Levy, and Lewis Warsh. Nduke’s own writing is anchored by political conscience, but unintimidated by the conventional.
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Emily Dickinson Wasn’t Crazy
Emily Dickinson continues to appeal to literary critics fascinated by her poetry’s terse and alarming emotional breadth. Many biographies attribute her emotional poetry to a sense of agoraphobia, but at Lit Hub, Jerome Charyn makes the case for Emily Dickinson…
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Public Poetry
I’m interested in Roland Barthes’s idea that mythology is essentially a type of speech, and that speech defines a culture. Poetry can define the dominant languages we have in culture—and now those languages are advertising and the news media. So…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Not That Town
Times like those lead you to believe that writing is, before it’s anything else, about simply getting it straight.
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The Body Does Not Lie
For Guernica, Jen Karetnick interviews dancer Natica Angilly about dance poetry, its meaning, and how she became involved in it: Natural, developed, and studied efforts to share our singular and group experience are worth pursuing in all expressive languages, especially dance…
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The Rumpus Interview with Robyn Schiff
Robyn Schiff talks about her collection A Woman of Property, the long con of “owning” land, her passion for early novels, how motherhood changed her poetry, and the generative powers of form.
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The Last Pilot
Most writers have imagined the scene of their own death—in the hopes of stylizing the moment or savoring the thought of someone sifting through and publishing their old manuscripts. It seems that James Tate, even in death, outdid us all…
