The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Linda Hogan about her poetry collection Indios. …more

The Rumpus Book Club talks with Cheryl Strayed about Wild, finding forgiveness through writing, Sugar, being photoshopped, and more. …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with D.A. Powell about his poetry collection Useless Landscape, or A Guide For Boys. …more

Rumpus Book Club member Kristy Elam shares an adorable ad for TRBC: …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aase Berg and translator Johannes Göransson about the poetry collection Transfer Fat. We are also joined this month by Garth Graeper of Ugly Duckling Presse, who published Transfer Fat. …more

Today is the very last day to join The Rumpus Book Club if you’re hoping to receive Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s book, Wild. Make your way over here to subscribe.

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Amy Newman about her poetry collection Dear Editor. …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club discussion with Amy Newman, in its entirety: …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club discussion with T. R. Hummer, in its entirety: …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with T. R. Hummer about his poetry collection Ephemeron. …more

The Rumpus Book Club discussion with Laurie Weeks, in its entirety: …more

The Rumpus Book Club talks with Laurie Weeks about Zipper Mouth, her road to The Feminist Press, and words that do backflips. …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club discussion with Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, in its entirety:

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Meghan O’Rourke about her poetry collection Once. …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aracelis Girmay about her poetry collection Kingdom Animalia. …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club discussion with Aracelis Girmay, in its entirety: …more

The Rumpus Book Club is closing out summer and welcoming the fall with advanced copies of Show Up, Look Good, our highly-anticipated September selection.

Written by Mark Wisniewski and published by Gival Press, this novel has been reaping in a ton of laudatory blurbs from veteran writers like Jonathan Lethem (who calls Wisniewski’s book, “riotously original”). The book’s not out until October, but excerpted portions have already appeared in The 1999 Pushcart Prize XXIII: Best of the Small Presses, Oasis, and The New England Review, to name just a few publications.

The book is set in post-9/11 New York City and the first line serves a dual purpose of intrigue-incitement and plot-outlining: “I know of a secret murder and I’ve loved a speechless man and sometimes I’d like to tell someone about how death and love have changed my life, but any of three thoughts give me pause.”
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When I read the inside cover, I did not think I was really going to enjoy reading Luminarium.  The summary made the book sound like something Robert Lundlum would write after he’d downed a few mescaline caps, despite what was actually promised.  Granted, there is nothing wrong with Lundlum’s type of book, but action-thriller novels just aren’t what I really get into.  However, the blurbs on the back included Dave Eggers, Deb Olin Unferth, and Jonathan Franzen, among others.  Were they into Lundlum-type books?  I did not imagine that they were.  Of course, I read Luminarium, but despite the notables present in the blurb section, I wasn’t very excited when I first got started. …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Lea Graham about her collection Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You

This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with Lea Graham. Every month The Rumpus Poetry Book Club hosts a discussion online with the club members and the author, and we post an edited version online as an interview. You can read the unedited discussion here. To learn how you can become a member of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club click here.

This conversation was edited by Rumpus Poetry editor Brian Spears.

Editor’s Note: Due to some technical problems, Lea wasn’t able to answer as often as she would have liked. Let’s just say pop-up ads are evil and leave it there. So we decided to give Lea a chance to add to her comments via email, after the chat was completed. Those additions are set off in italics. …more

The Rumpus Book Club talks to Christopher Boucher about his debut novel How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, a decade’s worth of writing, …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Harmony Holiday about her debut collection Negro League Baseball. …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club discussion with Tracy K. Smith, in its entirety: …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tracy K. Smith about her collection Life on Mars. …more

The Rumpus Book Club talks with Deborah Baker about her new book, The Convert. …more

The Rumpus Book Club discussion with Deborah Baker, in its entirety: …more

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club discussion with Dean Young, in its entirety: …more

Every month, the Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with the author of the book we’ve been discussing. This month is extraordinary, however, because our poet, Dean Young, had a heart transplant on April 15, just over two weeks ago. …more