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.

How It’s Made

Eileen Myles — Snowflake/different streets.

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Either Way I’m Celebrating

Between poetry and stand-up comedy.

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Microreview: Christian Hawkey, Ventrakl

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

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Review: Bluets

By Maggie Nelson.

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Review: The Most of It

By Mary Ruefle.

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About Marriage

  • Elisa Gabbert
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Microreview: Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamaist

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Microreview: Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamaist

Poems presented as objects of contemplation.

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Review: Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk

By Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

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Microreview: Charles Simic, My Noiseless Entourage

Poems with a playful yet urgent sense of risk.

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Microreview: Christian Hawkey, The Book of Funnels

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Review: Little Savage

By Emily Fragos.

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