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Rex Wilder

Rex Wilder is the author of Open Late: New and Collected Poems (Chatwin Books), and Boomerangs in the Living Room and Waking Bodies (both Red Hen Press).

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Dolphins on Glass

By Rex Wilder April 1, 2021

The dolphins I behold out my picture window . . .

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Brierre

By Rex Wilder October 29, 2020

Cumulus, Fog, and Stratus, as you scud…

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Last Day at Venice Beach

By Rex Wilder April 30, 2020

Dolphins stitch along the republic, for which they swim beyond the rock…

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Holiday Special

By Rex Wilder January 23, 2020

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade stops right in front of us, as my wife props our new baby at her breast to feed…

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Valentino

By Rex Wilder April 4, 2019

‘Against the Eden green and the densities of the avocados…’

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Poetry

By Rex Wilder October 25, 2018

“I try to learn the prose of life, but my slavish reproduction of its speech is wooden…”

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Poetry

By Rex Wilder August 9, 2018

He was the last of the great romantic mopes . . .

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Poetry

By Rex Wilder March 16, 2018

This poem appears in the April 2 print issue of NR.

Poetry

By Rex Wilder March 15, 2018

“Empirical,” by Rex Wilder.