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Description: Rustin Larson’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry East, The Atlanta Review and other magazines. Crazy Star, his latest collection, was selected for the Loess Hills Book’s Poetry Series in 2005. Larson won 1st Editor’s Prize from Rhino magazine in 2000 and has won prizes for his poetry from The National Poet Hunt and The Chester H. Jones Foundation among others. A five-time Pushcart nominee, and graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing, Larson was an Iowa Poet at The Des Moines National Poetry Festival in 2002 and 2004, a featured writer in the DMACC Celebration of the Literary Arts in 2007, 2008, and has been highlighted on the public radio programs Live from Prairie Lights and Voices from the Prairie. He is the host of the radio talk show Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost http://www.kruufm.com and lives in Fairfield, Iowa. |
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| Steven Schneider wrote a nice review of my book by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
Rustin Larson’s The Wine-Dark House and the Poet’s Journey
Review by Steven P. Schneider
Rustin Larson has been quietly writing his poems in Southeastern Iowa for over twenty years now. Gradually, he accumulated a body of work that has attracted the attention of other poets, critics, and that increasingly rare specimen, readers. For his efforts Larson has won prizes for his poetry, has been
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| Helene Cardona by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Helene Cardona for my KRUU radio show, Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost. Not only is Helene a fine poet, you've also seen her on-screen in popular movies like CHOCOLAT. Tune in Sunday, August 22nd at 10:30 am to KRUU-LP, 100.1 FM to hear this fascinating interview or listen on the web at http://kruufm.com.
A citizen of the United States, France and Spain,
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| A Blog about Poetry by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
What else? You've heard me say how fantastic the poems of William Kemmett are. Let's take a look inside the cover of his new book, Black Oil. I'm sure you'll agree with me, this is not your father's Oldsmobile.
The opening poem is a surrealist knock-out. And it's called:
The Bible Salesman
She had a spider
With a genus too complicated
To remember: Amazonia something
Or other. It was as large
As a
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| A Disappearance in Greece by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
I am co-author of a poem cycle called, "Disappearance in Greece." The cycle runs 14 pages. My fellow co-authors are Kirpal Gordon, Ernest Kroll and Carl Conover, all very good poets. We have never met each other. We never intended to co-author a poem cycle. The grouping of our poems is merely a typographical perception, and, apparently, accidental and not editorial. If you access EBSCO Host
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| A Concentration of Daylight by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
The freak circus is in town. Fairchild street, February 1974,
up the ice-patched, sloping walk and up the front steps into
the cobwebby and dirty entryway full of spooky old denim jackets
and jeans scattered every which way. The crooked staircase
up to the landing. And behold: tall Alfred Wain, leers over
the bannister. He throws his maniac's laugh.
"Well, well, what do we
