poetry
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Remembering the Blue and the Gray
Memorial Day is a time of both national reflection and diverse local tradition. In a piece connecting poetry and community storytelling, The Atlantic offers some literary history in observance of this past weekend’s holiday. Two years after the end of…
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In Defense of Twitter Poetry
Twitter is like a digital notebook for collecting observations, Rhys Nixon describes over at Entropy, making it an ideal platform for poetry and expression. Twitter also combines humor and absurdism, two elements often overlooked in more conventional literature. But perhaps…
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Reckless Lovely by Martha Silano
Molly Sutton Kiefer reviews Martha Silano’s Reckless Lovely today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse by Philip Schultz
Barbara Berman reviews Philip Schultz’s The Wherewithal A Novel in Verse today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“How do we access what we cannot know?”
A book of poetry wrangling with your complicated Southern genealogy: this, by definition, is a complicated endeavor. The Forage House, Tess Taylor’s debut book of poetry, finds the author doing just that. The Oxford American talks to her about what that was like: A lot…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey Chapter 4
While poetry reveals what is fantastic and dangerous, a poem is not a fairytale escape. The triumphs in a poem are foremost triumphs of the imagination more so than the soul.
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Beast by Frances Justine Post
Tova Gannana reviews Frances Justine Post’s Beast today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Corridor by Saskia Hamilton
Lisa Williams reviews Saskia Hamilton’s Corridor today in Rumpus Poetry.
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She Has a Name by Kamilah Aisha Moon
Melissa Leigh Gore reviews Kamilah Aisha Moon’s She Has a Name today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Separation” by W. S. Merwin
“Separation” expresses the paradoxical intersection of the instantaneous and the enduring.
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How to Enjoy Poetry
Poetry can intimidate. Casual consumers of other art forms like film or fiction often willingly offer uninformed opinions, even if that only means rating a product on Amazon. But asking readers for opinions on poetry regularly leads to avoidance and…
