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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: If You Ain’t Got Your Poetics, Man, You’re Sunk

I’m glad to see Joshua Weiner wrestle so diligently and forthrightly with Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems over on The Los Angeles Review. His review deserves attention, and…

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“In Time’s Rift” by Ernst Meister

In Heidegger’s essay ‘The Nature of Language’ he poses the question “When does language speak itself as language?” He answers: “Curiously enough, when we cannot find the right word for…

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Thunderbird by Dorothea Lasky

Thunderbird is one of the more traditional collections I’ve come across recently, both in tone and in form. Lasky doesn’t experiment heavily with form, preferring to stick to free verse…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Naming Names

Michael Lista nails it with his review of The Open Door: One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine, the anthology celebrating 100 years of Poetry, edited by Don Share and Chistian…

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Having Been an Accomplice by Laura Cronk

Cronk’s Having Been an Accomplice is layered in the “imagined” of the real world, no matter the continent.

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The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Berry

Lauren Berry, author of The Lifting Dress, discusses her experiences as a high school teacher, in an effort to continue a needed conversation about careers for graduates of Creative Writing MFA programs.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Roaring Editors

The Academy of American Poets is featuring Terese Svoboda’s generous tribute to a relatively unknown 1920’s proletariat poet, Lola Ridge. Svoboda isn’t just knocked out by Ridge. She compares her…

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The Branches, The Axe, The Missing by Charlotte Pence

Charlotte Pence, author of Weaves a Clear Night has created in The Branches, the Axe, the Missing a work of significant mythic force that explores intimate circumstances of a woman…

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The Daily Beast Loves The Rumpus Book Club

And we love you back. While I’m at it, a little update news. Our current book is Kathleen Alcott’s The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets—Bookslut covered it here and said “It’s…

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I Live in a Hut by S. E. Smith

J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield famously said that the mark of a great author is whether, after reading their work, you want to call them up to talk, want to gab…

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Letters From Robots by Diana Salier

I am not impressed with writers who refuse to use punctuation or capitalization; that gimmick has been famously used already, so now it comes across as lazy and unoriginal. Also,…

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Fragile Acts by Allan Peterson

The cover of Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts, in print and as eBook, is as visually compelling as the cover of Rebecca Lindenberg’s Love, An Index, the first poetry selection in…

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