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Quiet Anthem

by Genevieve Burger-Weiser Book Reviews
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Cursivism, Will Hubbard’s slim, debut volume of prose poems published by Ugly Duckling Presse, begins with a simple piece of advice that may be one of the most challenging charges facing anyone who is trying to figure out how to live, “just let it happen.”

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Matthew Rohrer’s Destroyer and Preserver

by Evan Hansen Book Reviews
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If you’d told me that the ultimate line of a wonderful poem could be, simply, “Doctor Wong,” I would’ve looked at you skeptically.

Tagged as: A Hummock in the Malookas, Bob Hicok, Casualties, destroyer and preserver, enjambment, From Mars, Marque Nùmero Dos, Mary Oliver, matthew rohrer, New York School, Stevens, syntax

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Stirring of consciousness, awakening of reason

by Martin Rock Book Reviews
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Thin Kimono is a book of mistaken identities: a hallucinogenic wandering through a cocktail party the night before the invention of the internet. The party is populated with individuals you may or may not know. Your wife is a slightly altered version of herself.

Tagged as: A Plate of Chicken, absurdism, Bluebirds, Francis Ponge, In the Road, matthew rohrer, Michael Earl Craig, Proem, realism, surrealism, The Bad Clown, The Neighbor, Thin Kimono, Wave Poetry

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Poem of the Week: Matthew Rohrer

by Bianca Stone Poems News Events
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[Do you get any reception here?]

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