poetry
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The Country Outside Us
In Ireland, I fell in love easily and often. On the bus from Galway to Dublin; in a smoky, centuries-old pub; on a Donegal beach, my hair wet with rain.
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We Lack in Equipment & Control by Jennifer Fortin
Wesley Rothman reviews Jennifer Fortin’s We Lack In Equipment & Control today in Rumpus Poetry.
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When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
Ryan Teitman reviews Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Was an Aztec today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Breaking Out of the “Reservation of My Mind”
Sherman Alexie always loved to read, but it never occurred to him that he—or any other Native American, for that matter—could become a writer. That all changed when he read a poem by Adrian C. Louis and came to the…
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He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs by Leonard Gontarek
A. V. Christie reviews Leonard Gontarek’s He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs today in Rumpus Poetry.
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X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess
Rebecca Hazelton reviews X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Render / An Apocalypse by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Roberto Carlos Garcia reviews Rebecca Gayle Howell’s Render: An Apocalypse today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Tender: A quarterly journal made by women
Tender is a brand new “quarterly journal made by women” edited in the United Kingdom. The Quietus recently talked to Tender’s two founders, Sophie Collins and Rachael Allen, about the chosen name, the meaning of “female-identified” definition and which female writers…
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The Silence of Doorways by Sharon Venezio
Lisa Cheby reviews Sharon Venezio’s The Silence of Doorways today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil
Diego Báez reviews Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Poetry Shutdown Begins – Poets and Critics Fail to Agree
A flurry of last-minute phone calls, philippics, tweets, and Facebook posts by poets and critics late last night failed to break a bitter standoff over the latest poetry-is-dead attacks, setting in motion the first poetry shutdown in the history of…
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Life Cycle by Dena Rash Guzman
Ryan Werner reviews Dena Rash Guzman’s Life Cycle today in Rumpus Poetry.