poetry
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The Cloud That Contained the Lightning by Cynthia Lowen
Michael Klein reviews Cynthia Lowen’s The Cloud That Contained the Lightning today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The State of American Poetry
If you liked David Biepsiel’s State of American Poetry address, here’s a nice counterpart by Natasha Trethewey at the Virginia Quarterly Review. “Despair about the place of poetry in American culture is nothing new,” she begins, and goes on to…
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Practice on Mountains by David Bartone
Erin Miller reviews David Bartone’s Practice on Mountains today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Brushes With by Kristina Marie Darling
Jeff Alessandrelli reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Brushes With today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The State of American Poetry Address
Poets, Poetesses, and Unacknowledged Legislators of Mankind: I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of Poetry. I use the word “unprecedented,” because at no previous time has American poetry been as seriously threatened as it is today.…
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Poetry Is Useful—Or At Least It Can Be
Poetry is always already revolutionary, then. What it says hardly matters. Poetry is useful because of its useless essence, not because of its individual meaning. Of course, this is nonsense. The way Noah Berlatsky sees it, mainstream culture and poets agree…
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Beyond the Chainlink by Rusty Morrison
Dan Shewan reviews Rusty Morrison’s Beyond the Chainlink today in Rumpus Poetry.
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What We Ask of Flesh by Remica Bingham
Damon Marbut reviews Remica Bingham’s What We Ask of Flesh today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Meridian by Kathleen Jesme
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Kathleen Jesme’s Meridian today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Neon Tryst by Lina Vitkauskas
Virginia Konchan reviews Lina Vitkauskas’s Neon Tryst today in Rumpus Poetry.

