The Dead Man’s Back Arches
The collection works as poetic biography and Whitmanesque dialogue, and this approach and its repetitions become irresistibly hypnotic.So who would you carve into the Mount Rushmore of American poets?...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show #6: Oliver de la Paz
Oliver de la Paz is the author of four collections of poetry: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, and the recently published Post Subject: A Fable. He co-edited A Face to Meet...
View ArticlePoetry Is a Manifestation of a Life: Talking with Marvin Bell
To Dorothy You are not beautiful, exactly. You are beautiful, inexactly. You let a weed grow by the mulberry and a mulberry grow by the house. So close, in the personal quiet of a windy night, it...
View ArticleA Small Universe Set in Motion: Talking with Amanda Moore
Amanda Moore’s National Poetry Series-winning collection, Requeening, examines the life of women and all we receive and pass down as daughters, mothers, wives, and makers. Early in the book, Moore...
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