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.
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Ultramegaprairieland by Elisabeth Workman
Melissa-Leigh Gore reviews Elisabeth Workman’s Ultramegaprairieland today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kara Candito
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kara Candito about goats, sexuality, Lorca, and slow writing in this chat about her book Spectator from the University of Utah Press.
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This Last Time Will Be The First by Jeff Alessandrelli
Andrew Fulmer reviews Jeff Alessandrelli’s This Last Time Will Be the First today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Crowdsourced Poetry
Since May, poet David Lehman has been working on a crowdsourced sonnet over at The American Scholar. Lehman wrote the poem’s first line, and then chose the next 13 from reader suggestions, selecting one a week. And now that the…
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Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture by David Caplan
Charlotte Pence reviews David Caplan’s Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Wolf Centos by Simone Muench
Julie Marie Wade reviews Simone Muench’s Wolf Centos today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 9
Becoming a poet means writing past the danger each and every time you feel that you’re struggling with writing a poem.
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House and Fire by Maria Hummel
Laura Haynes reviews Maria Hummel’s House on Fire today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Self Unstable by Elisa Gabbert
Brian Pera reviews Elisa Gabbert’s The Self Unstable today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Saddest Poem Ever Written
A lot of poems are sad, but over at The Millions, Nick Ripatrazone thinks he’s found the saddest: “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Ripatrazone explores Hopkins’s poem, and while doing so, gives his thoughts on what good poetry…