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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 | 30 Oct 2009 |
| Featured Poet in Pirene's Fountain by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
Any given Sunday or Monday, if your radio’s tuned to KRUU 100.1 in Fairfield, Iowa, you’ll catch Rustin Larson hosting his talk show with the quirky-hip title: “Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost.” With an eye on creating a venue for poets, Larson spent several years in magazine publishing, but the venture ran its course. Still looking to showcase writers, he met with the KRUU station manager, who gave
| SUNY, Saranac Review, Poetry, Michael Carrino, Mellen, Conestoga Zen, Books, Arts and Entertainment | 13 Oct 2009 |
| New Poems by Michael Carrino by Rustin Larson | Comment (1) |
Flame skunks. They is a problem to most home owners, be all they don't know it though. Pesky little fellers, git in your basement and start feedin off the lint of most furnace filters. You can tell 'em by their plumpish skunk bodies, but they's head's just like a gas broiler with the flames all lit and lickin up the sides like whispy blue whiskery cheeks. Natural fire hazards. Burnt up a
| Untagged | 24 Aug 2009 |
| Black Oil by Bill Kemmett by Rustin Larson | Comment (2) |
Bill Kemmett is a brilliant poet. He lives in Port Saint Lucie, Florida and he crafts gems: carefully cut, polished, sparkling, many-faceted gems. He may start the day with his noggin on his pillow, at the beach, or browsing a yard sale, but with the mere flick of his eye he reveals fathoms. His forthcoming book, Black Oil, is a long-awaited volume, and I have the exclusive honor of sharing some
| Rustin Larson, paranormal activity, hauntings, Ghosts | 8 Aug 2009 |
| WELCOME TO THIS HAUNTED ROOM by Rustin Larson | Comment (1) |
This room in which you stand is rife with paranormal activity eight (8) minutes every day, starting at 7:15 p.m. This has been the case every day since the evening of December 24, 1938 when this activity was first discovered.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT DURING YOUR VISIT
While experiences may differ from person to person, these and similar phenomena were reported by more than one visitor:
1) A vigorous
