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Kathleen Rooney

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. Her most recent books are For You, for You I Am Trilling These Songs and After Robinson has Gone.

Articles

Eileen Myles — Snowflake/different streets.
Kathleen Rooney

Between poetry and stand-up comedy.

Kathleen Rooney

A ghost story—not in the flashlight-under-the-face, seated-around-the-campfire sense, but rather in the hauntological, Derridean one.

Kathleen Rooney
By Maggie Nelson.
Kathleen Rooney
By Mary Ruefle.
Kathleen Rooney
Poetry
Elisa Gabbert, Kathleen Rooney
Poems presented as objects of contemplation.
Kathleen Rooney
By Joshua Marie Wilkinson.
Kathleen Rooney
Poems with a playful yet urgent sense of risk.
Kathleen Rooney
By Emily Fragos.
Kathleen Rooney

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