Ellen F Brown
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The Amazing Disappearing Woman Writer
To refuse to disappear at mid-life—I am forty-two as of the writing of this essay—is perhaps the best rebellion a woman poet can make to the literary world and to the world at large.
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Application for Release from the Dream by Tony Hoagland
Ellen F. Brown reviews Tony Hoagland’s Application for Release from the Dream today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
In a focused and engaging Saturday Interview, Arielle Bernstein talks to essayist Karrie Higgins—the author of a 2015 Best American Essay titled “Strange Flowers”—about the generative quality of chaos within the creative process. Higgins points to the influence of forensic science on her approach.…
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impossible bottle by Claudia Emerson
Ellen F. Brown reviews Claudia Emerson’s impossible bottle today in Rumpus Poetry.