poetry
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Good Night Brother by Kimberly Burwick
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kimberly Burwick’s Good Night Brother today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Miller Williams, 1930-2015
Poet Miller Williams has died at the age of 84. I only knew him as a teacher—he’s the reason I went to the University of Arkansas for my MFA, and I remember my voice shaking as I introduced myself to…
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Veiled Spill: A Sequence by Jan Clausen
Kelly Morse reviews Jan Clausen’s Veiled Spill: A Sequence today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Manifesto for Bad Poetry
If guided well, no-one who sets out to write a bad poem is going to accidentally write an excellent one.
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Practicing Yoga with Sylvia Plath
This is the Plath poem I relate the most to shavasana. You sink down, you bubble back up. The Duchess of Nothing in yoga pants. For Carrie Frye, yoga practice and Sylvia Plath are inherently tied. She explains why in…
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Buy Bishop’s North Haven
If you happen to know a poet with $130,000 burning a hole through his or her pocket, alert them at once: Elizabeth Bishop’s home in Nova Scotia is up for sale. Although Bishop lived there for only a few years,…
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A Famous Blues / Go Find Your Father by Harmony Holiday
Kent Shaw reviews Harmony Holiday’s A Famous Blues / Go Find Your Father today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Woman Without a Country by Eavan Boland
Jenna Le reviews Eavan Boland’s A Woman Without a Country today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Love Sonnets and Elegies by Louise Labé, translated by Richard Sieburth
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Richard Sieburth’s translation of Louise Labé’s Love Sonnets and Elegies today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The View from Saturn by Alice Friman
Tariq al Haydar reviews Alice Friman’s The View from Saturn today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Rehabbing Poets’ Broken Records
New audio preservation technology just opened a treasure trove at Harvard: thousands of recordings of influential poets reading their work, once feared too deteriorated to salvage, are now being recovered. As WBUR reports, the IRENE program takes high-res 3D photographs…
