poetry
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Odessa by Patricia Kirkpatrick
Jim Zukowski reviews Patricia Kirkpatrick’s Odessa today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Bully Pulpit by Kim Bridgford
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kim Bridgford’s Bully Pulpit today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Litany for the City by Ryan Teitman
Michelle Salcido reviews Ryan Teitman’s Litany for the City today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Striven, the Bright Treatise by Jeffrey Pethybridge
Jody Smiling reviews Jeffrey Pethybridge’s Striven, the Bright Treatise today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Cynicism of Mark Edmundson, Or Poetry Is Still Not Dead
Mark Edmundson’s take down of contemporary American poetry, “Poetry Slam,” (currently behind the paywall) in this month’s issue of Harper’s, is not so bad really. He’s right about the insularity of the American poetic idiom, the stranglehold of deconstructive theory…
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Small Porcelain Head by Allison Benis White
Marcus Myers reviews Allison Benis White’s Small Porcelain head today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jeffrey Pethybridge
Jeffrey Pethybridge discusses his collection, Striven, The Bright Treatise, with The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
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To See the Queen by Allison Seay
Sally Rosen Kindred reviews Allison Seay’s To See the Queen today in Rumpus Poetry.
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From Computer Geek to Children’s Poet Laureate
Children’s poetry is typically not more than one page or two pages long. And yet, within that one or two pages, kids can get a really strong positive emotional response that encourages them to want to read another poem. Time…
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Notable New York: 06/17-06/23
Tuesday 06/18: The Bushwick Book Club does Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers. If you haven’t seen this series where musicians reinterpret books in musical form, it’s time to correct that problem.…
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Poems Retrieved by Frank O’Hara
Barbara Berman reviews Fraonk O’Hara’s Poems retrieved today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Poems with Some Spine
Nina Katchadourian makes curious and compelling art in a variety of different mediums, but perhaps her most interesting project—to book nerds, at least—is Sorted Books, an ongoing series of photographs of books arranged so that their titles assume the form…