poetry
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Broke and Broken
Saeed Jones published a book of poems, Prelude To Bruise. Over at Buzzfeed, he’ll tell you why he wrote them, too: “My mother had a fatal heart attack the night before Mother’s Day in 2011. The experience of losing her…
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There, There by George Higgins
Heather Dobbins reviews George Higgins’s There, There today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Her Book by Éireann Lorsung
Lisa Williams reviews Éireann Lorsung’s Her Book today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Glaciology by Jeffrey Skinner
Charlie Atkinson reviews Jeffrey Skinner’s Glaciology today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Poems from Guantanamo
In 2010, French poet Frank Smith took the transcripts of the initial combatant status review tribunals from Guantanamo and turned them into a book of poetry. The New Inquiry looks at Vanessa Place’s recent English translation of Smith’s Guantanamo.
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The Tulip-Flame by Chloe Honum
Casey Thayer reviews Chloe Honum’s The Tulip-Flame today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Holy Ghost People by Joshua Young
Julie Marie Wade reviews Joshua Young’s The Holy Ghost People today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Daniel Anderson
In Episode 5 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick sits down with poet Daniel Anderson to chat about his latest collection, The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel, finding the rhythm in lines of poetry, and baseball.
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Word of the Day: Logodaedaly
(n.); cunning in words; skill in adorning speech; the arbitrary or capricious coinage of words; from late Latin and Greek, log (“speech, word”) and daidalos (“skillful, ingeniously formed) Every society we’ve ever known has had poetry, and should the day…
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Gephyromania by TC Tolbert
Charlie Atkinson reviews TC Tolbert’s Gephyromania today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 10
Becoming a poet means locating what images and symbols, what argument and figuration, are best suited to convey the aspects of change you most want to reveal through your writing.
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Who Said by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Molly Sutton Kiefer reviews Jennifer Michael Hecht’s Who Said today in Rumpus Poetry.