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# Two Poems by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/two-poems-by-rachel-blau-duplessis/
- Published: 2017-08-30T11:00:24.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:40:52.000Z
- Description: Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Rachel Blau DuPlessis for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
- Author: Wendy Xu
- Tags: Poetry, Hyperallergic Poetry, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

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Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet, critic, collagist. In 2017, her [*Days and Works* ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1934103721/?tag=hyperallergic-20&ref=hyperallergic.com)(described as re-folded Hesiod with newspaper clippings) came out from Ahsahta Press; the collage poem *Graphic Novella* was published by Xexoxial Edition in 2015\. And the full-length collage-poem *Numbers* is forthcoming in 2018 from Materialist Press. This work comes from *Storyboard*, begun after the 2016 US election.

*Readers are encouraged to submit 3–5 poems as a PDF to Wendy Xu for consideration at* [*poetry@hyperallergic.com.*](mailto:poetry@hyperallergic.com)