Fingers Through Sweat-Curled Hair
Biddinger’s repeated returns to haptic perception as a legitimized approach to the divine, or a sense of peace or benediction, amounts to an aesthetic necessity, alongside the necessity of putting…
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“How to Write a Love Poem”
“Poetry occupies a cultural space in Contemporary American Society somewhere between Tap Dancing and Ventriloquism.” How do you claim some of this space as your very own? The Awl has…
Your Notes, Your Small Pebbles
Arlene Kim’s book details a crisis of the spirit: moving from country to country, the spirit still needs the family for support, but also needs itself to remain strong and…
Cool Reconnaissance of the Cursive M
Weather, for all of its pyrotechnics, is a tender book, artfully charting the landscapes these poems inhabit.
Erotic Monarchs
“The love that united them with their passionate kisses made them even more closely entwined. Divine lust! Mistress of the world!” Those are lines from an erotic poem recently discovered…
Our Conversations Cold-Pressed
Danielle Cadena Deulen has assembled a collection that deftly maneuvers through dew-formed natural worlds, myths, and histories gone wrong to create a poetry collection that I found hypnotic and, at…
Poetry Can Save Us
The Trouble Ball witnesses the darker parts of history and celebrates resistance to the forces that created those.
Army Cats by Tom Sleigh
This collection has made me want to slink myself, like a cat, into literature, rub up against history and relish its connection to human curiosity.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Aracelis Girmay
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aracelis Girmay about her poetry collection, Kingdom Animalia.
Return to the Year Broken Free
I wish I could explain to you, to myself, the effect this language has upon me, but I can only say it makes my skin crawl. In a good way.
You Mean Garden, Don’t You?
The collection’s last section, “The Two Thousandsies” (dedicated to Rachel Maddow), his “Garden of Eden” reminds us this Professor Emeritus poet has managed to sustain over decades a vision of…
From Texting to Poeticizing
Britain’s 2009 poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, views texting as a “springboard”—not a hindrance—to strong poetry writing, arguing that the poem itself is a form of texting: “It’s a perfecting…