Nesting Dolls: Julie Carr’s Objects from a Borrowed Confession
Would you say poetry, for you, is the vessel which houses all other forms? I would say it is for me.
...moreWould you say poetry, for you, is the vessel which houses all other forms? I would say it is for me.
...morePoet Stephen Mills discusses his first two collections, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices and A History of the Unmarried, teaching writing, and what’s next.
...moreAt one point, I write in my margin: There is no X marks the spot for treasure here. The map is the treasure. Which is another way of saying: this book is the bounty; these poems are the gold.
...moreMatthews is a poet of multivalent ways and hows, an artist at home in the riddle of refusal.
...moreI recommend you pull over now. Better yet, I recommend you call in sick and turn your car around. You’re going to want to read this book in one solitary burst…
...moreIn this intimate, auditory format, you can hear the poets’ pages crinkling as they turn them—such a reassuring sound—turning pages instead of scrolling screens!
...moreDavid Hernandez discusses his most recent poetry collection, Dear, Sincerely, working across multiple genres, and why the act of making anything is a kind of optimism.
...moreIn other words, sometimes we need to be jolted out of our predictable behaviors and routines. We need the kind of reading that scatters us, pulls and weaves our cerebral, emotional, and visceral chains.
...moreJames Allen Hall on I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well, unmaking boundaries, and book titles.
...moreIn Full Velvet offers the truth of a woman’s life—the queer truth, the queer rose, the queer valentine. And everything is different after that moment of initiation, instantiation.
...more“I am grateful/ For the poetics of walking the streets.” And we are grateful to be walking with Zaher through the country of this book.
...moreDawn Lundy Martin discusses her most recent collection, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, the intersections between poetry and social justice, her wide variety of inspirations, and bathroom gender binaries.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Ghost/Landscape by Kristina Marie Darling and John Gallaher today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Mike Lala’s In the Gun Cabinet today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreAuthor Brenda Miller discusses the lyric essay, her “poet self” who always bleeds through, and what she’s writing about next.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Derrick Austin’s Trouble the Water today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreCampbell McGrath talks about his new collection, XX: Poems For The Twentieth Century, capitalism, history, and what it might mean to write a wordless poem.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Dennis Maloney’s Listening to Tao Yuan Ming today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Andrea Gibson’s Pansy today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreKaren Salyer McElmurray talks about academia, the relationship between flaws and perfection, writing memoir, and the “tapestry” of writers who inspire her.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Christopher DeWeese’s The Father of the Arrow is the Thought today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Natalie Eilbert’s Swan Feast today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreThe image that comes to my mind is a foot hovering above a stair. Marriage is the fabled next step, but engagement implies a kind of limbo, an almost-not-quite-there yet—the zero that comes before the one.
...moreProlific writer and Director of the FIU Creative Writing Program Les Standiford takes a look back at his career in books, including Water to the Angels and Bringing Adam Home, and tells us what’s next.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Robin Beth Schaer’s Shipbreaking today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Jehanne Dubrow’s The Arranged Marriage today in Rumpus Poetry.
...morePaul Griner talks about his newest novel, Second Life, his just-released story collection Hurry Please I Want to Know, putting real life into fiction, and whether creative writing can be taught.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Jessica Jacobs’ Pelvis With Distance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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