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Rebecca Rotert received her MA from Hollins College in Virginia where she was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets prize. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Santa Clara Review, America magazine, Hospital Drive Journal of Literature and Humanities, Temenos journal, Outside-In magazine, Health Progress and the New York Times. Her essay, Proteus on the Vasa was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Last Night at the Blue Angel is her first novel.

Since its publication, Last Night at the Blue Angel has won an award from the Friends of American Writers, was short-listed for the VCU Cabell Award, long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award. In the fall of 2015, it won the Nebraska Book Award.

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I knew you first as a poet. Will you one day have a book of your poetry published?
Rebecca Rotert Great question! Poetry is still my grounding rod, Ambrose. Reading it and writing it return me to the very heart of the venture of writing - the wrang…moreGreat question! Poetry is still my grounding rod, Ambrose. Reading it and writing it return me to the very heart of the venture of writing - the wrangling of detail, the attempt at an original direction. Poetry still changes everything for me. Last week I wrote a poem about migraines and I feel I have a new, much larger way to think about them and also to feel them when i have to. The poem will not remove the pain but it has enlarged the person (me) having it, haha. Isn't that what poetry does best?
I love a narrative energy/thread in a poem (if not a clear story, at least the resonance of one or the ghost of one) but this is not so popular in the world of poetry. Maybe it will come back, like parachute pants. Until then, brother.
ps-I'd love to know what poets you're reading these days. (less)
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“I thought, Here is a person who can wear the world so lightly. Why wouldn't I love her? Who wouldn't want to be by her side forever?

You got in trouble for loving her?

Of course, But there's no real effective punishment for love. Is there?”
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“to come around, you’re going to grow up. Break a leg tonight.”
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