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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: What Alexandra Petri Should Have Said in the Washington Post.

Kelly Clarkson’s Inaugural Song Means the Death of Country Music Inaugural country singer Kelly Clarkson said that her story is America’s story. If that’s the case, America should be slightly…

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Homebodies by Sarah Jane Sloat

If you open your hands to hold Homebodies, a chapbook of poems by Sarah J. Sloat, you find much about the book itself that makes the act feel personal, private.…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: A Poet and a President

A funny thing happened on the way to President Obama’s second inauguration Monday. The president’s speech and Richard Blanco’s poem got reversed. Broadly speaking, one’s expectations of political rhetoric is…

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Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room by Betsy Wheeler

Betsy Wheeler’s Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room has sort of undone me for the month and a half I’ve spent with it, reading it or letting it hang over…

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The Rumpus Interview with Rosie Schaap

Rosie Schaap discusses Drinking with Men, her love of poetry, her intriguing family members, and what she would do with her life if she weren’t a writer.

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My Scarlet Ways by Tanya Larkin

In age of poetry saturated with the irony and airy nonsense of the last phalanx of the grandchildren of the New York School, it is wonderfully refreshing to read Tanya…

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Now Make an Altar by Amy Beeder

In Amy Beeder’s poetry, we are surrounded by the refuse and remains of the past: memories and photos of lost generations, the bones and fur of animals used to adorn…

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In Beauty Bright by Gerald Stern

Having never read Gerald Stern’s poetry before, I took This Time: New and Selected Poems out from the library. The book won the National Book Award in 1998, and it…

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Counterpart by Elizabeth Robinson

Marisa Siegel reviews Elizabeth Robinson’s Counterpart today in Rumpus Poetry.

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Why I Chose Camille Guthrie’s Articulated Lair for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club

These poems are not traps, but safe spaces with doors inside them.

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Periodicity by Iris A. Law

Iris A. Law’s fearless debut work, Periodicity, operates through a unique structural conceit that lushly unfolds across the arc of the chapbook: each poem takes as its subject matter a…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Viva Richard Blanco!

As of today the question of whether President Barack Obama or former Governor Mitt Romney won the Cuban vote in Florida, traditionally a solid Republican bloc, remains in dispute. Back…

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