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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Marilyn Hacker Is No Hack

Here’s hoping more people read the concise and precise interview about translation up on Guernica between Erica Wright and Marilyn Hacker. When we talk about someone being a prolific translator,…

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“Roleplay” by Juliana Gray

In Juliana Gray’s Roleplay, though the book has its share of formal verse – triolets, sonnets, etc – don’t be surprised if you run into a zombie or two. Roleplay…

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The Last Poem I Loved: “Oh Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie” by Philip Appleman

Of all of the people I know who own a smartphone (a majority, anymore), most of them get up in the morning and immediately reach for said smartphone from their…

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A Brief History of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club

Back in July of 2010, The Rumpus started a poetry version of its book club. Board member Camille Dungy selected Shane Book’s Ceiling of Sticks to start us off and…

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“The Children” by Paula Bohince

The plosive thrills and quietly mournful tenor of the finely-wrought poems Paula Bohince’s The Children (her second full-length collection) reward enormously upon first encounter, and only more so upon subsequent…

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Peter Orner

In Memory of Victor Martinez

Peter Orner remembers his friend, the late poet and novelist Victor Martinez.

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“The Fact of the Matter” by Sally Keith

In The Fact of the Matter, moments are artifacts to be labeled and sorted. The poems are not an attempt to make sense – of time, of history, and of…

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The Last Poem I Loved: “Sleeping Lioness” by Larry Levis

As a fiction writer, and as a reader, I gravitate toward stories from the perspective of a specific, imperfect and alert, outward-and-inward-looking consciousness, a transparent eyeball with legs and, at…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Portland!

Portland Goes Wild for Mathew Dickman and the Objectivist Tradition Now: I can’t tell you whether or not two days ago I was in a brief e-mail back and forth…

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“The Crossed Out Swastika” by Cyrus Cassells

Cyrus Cassells’ fifth collection of poems, The Crossed-Out Swastika, treads the familiar yet treacherous and muddy ground of World War II. For a less skilful poet, such hostile territory may…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: First Monday in October

Bob Hicok Says Believe Me: Over at The Believer, Bob Hicok fields a few questions (excerpts only at this point per interviewer Matthew Sherling) about his writing process. Hicok’s takes…

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