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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. |
| Untagged | 18 May 2009 |
| Marvin Bell to appear on Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
Renowned national poet Marvin Bell visited the studios of KRUU recently and was interviewed by Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost's own Rustin Larson. This interview will air Sunday, May 31st at 10:30 am and Monday June 1st at 1:30 pm central time. In this fascinating program, Marvin reads selected poems from his latest books, talks about his long career as a writer and teacher, and discusses recent
| Untagged | 8 Apr 2009 |
| Nixon, 1959 by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
At the airport, Polish officials met Nixon politely, but without
the enthusiasm that might have offended Khrushchev.
All day long my father sipped the same cold cup of coffee,
soldered televisions, repaired radios and turntables,
a stack of Sinatra to test the tone arm. Thousands of Poles
cheered wildly, greeted the Vice-President without fear.
A blind woman lived in a shack attached to a mound
| Untagged | 22 Mar 2009 |
| My New Book - Update by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
The Wine-Dark House is my new book of poetry, recently released by
Blue Light Press through 1st World Publishing. I'm so pleased and
honored Diane Frank selected my book for publication. Many, many thanks,
Diane!
Awesome comments on the book jacket. Just gotta share:
Rustin Larson is courageous in that he is not willing to take refuge
in the ordinary. His poetry has been described as
| Untagged | 11 Mar 2009 |
| Night Librarian by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
Too scary to be beautiful?--powder-blue sometimes,
ashen the ghosts now. Always one
obsessed with the cartography
of Indiana. Fade they do into the stacks
when I approach, will not be spoken
to. Why do they return? All this
silent research, maps, verse.
Someone (me?) to search for something? Bones?
Jewelry? Lost words? A mouse runs across
the carpeting. We at least share a brotherhood
of breath, saliva
| Untagged | 19 Feb 2009 |
| James Joyce and Janis Joplin by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
James Joyce and Janis Joplin walk together
down Broadway. They aren't exactly arm-
in-arm, but together past the Dante café
and the post office, east past the Co-Ed theater
and the Red Rock Tavern to the square. You know the place.
They aren't ghosts, but bodies real as you.
Janis has all these arm bangles and you'd
think James would be eye-patched, but he has it together
enough today to be just
