poetry
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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…
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The Hydromantic Histories by Fox Frazier-Foley
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens reviews Fox Frazier-Foley’s The Hydromantic Histories today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Eileen Myles Is a “Hall of Mirrors”
Famous people are of course the repositories for the hopes, dreams, and shames of the non famous. Arielle Greenberg, editor of Rumpus series (K)ink: Writing While Deviant, writes searchingly about herself, Eileen Myles, poetry, and fame for the Poetry Foundation.
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Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Molly Spencer reviews Richard Zenith’s translation of Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Men Explain Submissions To Me
Perhaps he thought he was doing me a favor by explaining this to me so I might not get into further trouble. I’m afraid I have continued to get myself into trouble instead.
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Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen
Linda Ashok reviews Chen Chen’s Set the Garden on Fire today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Mullen
Acclaimed poet and writer Laura Mullen talks about her new book, Complicated Grief, obsession, germ theory, and exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.
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Poetry As Enchantment by Dana Gioia
Barbara Berman reviews Dana Gioia’s Poetry As Enchantment today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Defeat
It never occurred to me to try to write poems without the guidance of other poets and poems.
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Ventriloquy by Athena Kildegaard
Wendy Chin-Tanner reviews Athena Kildegaard’s Ventriloquy today in Rumpus Poetry.