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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 | 20 Jul 2009 |
| Mouse by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
Alone, in the quiet hour,
I don't know
If, where you are,
You sleep
Or are kept awake
By the moon,
But
I can say
The mouse who has come
To visit me
Is not afraid
As she sits
On the carpet,
Licks her hands,
And grooms her
| Untagged | 14 Jul 2009 |
| Chimp Report by Rustin Larson | Comment (1) |
Just about when their careers
hit stride,
they die. No one else around, at 59 they groom
themselves and grin, showing their teeth to the mirror,
which sometimes means fear,
but in this case
means floss. The one volume of Shakespeare
they steadily typed all their
lives, those
many gestures, palms held out
as they begged, lips held
together
when ready for
| Untagged | 25 Jun 2009 |
| Poof by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
Breath. I suppose there was a gathering, a party of sorts. When I was one, my identity was my mother. When she laughed so did I, and when she cried… I enjoyed the spoonfuls of mush she fed me, the tiny jars of turkey or chicken sausages. When I was older, maybe I was five or six, I disappeared for a moment. I was sitting on the floor of the kitchen and then
| 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
