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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	15 Jun 2010
A Concentration of Daylight by Rustin Larson	Comment (0)

I. The Freak Circus

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

Untagged	25 May 2010
Another poem by William Kemmett by Rustin Larson	Comment (0)

Bill Kemmett writes: "Dear Rustin, just a quick hello to thank you for the good words on BLACK OIL which is only weeks away from publication. I've been writing more than ever even though it's been a private love for the most part. But your kind blurb in IOWA SOURCE has been a bit of a head's up prior to actual publication. Again thanks for the support. Sincerely, Bill."

Turns out, his book is

Theater, Rustin Larson, Poetic Commerce, Music, Junk food, Inspiration, independent bookstores, Environment, Arts and Entertainment	6 Apr 2010
The Lake Shore Limited by Rustin Larson	Comment (0)

In some past life I must have been late for a train. Overburdened with luggage, breathless, I can see me running, fedora whisked from my head by the wind. Only by some feat of strength, some last surge of energy, am I able to clamber aboard the moving coach, neither helped nor encouraged by the barrel-chested, walrus-whiskered conductor. I lay breathless on the floor of the shifting

World, Spirituality, Rustin Larson, recycled cabin, paranormal activity, Paradise, Music, Junk food, Jane Goodall, Inspiration, independent bookstores, hauntings, Ghosts, Food, Flame skunks, Film, Fiction, Environment, Economics, Conestoga Zen, Buy Local, Books, Bollywood, Beatles, Arts and Entertainment, Abraham Lincoln	16 Feb 2010
Navigating the Neo Nar Nor Nebula by Rustin Larson	Comment (0)

He tried to remember when he was a baby. He could only visualize a Polaroid photograph of a party in his stepfather's basement. There was his mother, all legs in a mini-skirt, his biological father, clueless, and, among an assortment of other mushroom-haired men, his future stepfather licking the edge of a hand-rolled cigarette. Lots of alcohol and joints were in play, and there he was, Paul,

Untagged	9 Feb 2010
Lyrical Iowa Contest Deadline Approaches! by Rustin Larson	Comment (2)

THE IOWA POETRY ASSOCIATION'S
65th Annual Contest

General Rules For All Divisions

Note: FAILURE TO OBSERVE RULES MAY DISQUALIFY ENTRIES.

1. Contests are open to all persons with Iowa residence. (See College exception) No entry fee. No membership or book purchase requirement.
2. Poems must be original and unpublished (including on-line and self publication). If copying a significant portion of