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.
...moreEach day from January 7 to January 20, Rumpus Original Poems will feature poetry written in response to the coming presidential inauguration. Today’s poem is from Julie Marie Wade.
...moreOfficial inaugural poems are a strange beast. There have only been five of them and the one we recognize as the first, Robert Frost’s “The Gift Outright,” wasn’t composed for President Kennedy’s inauguration. Frost recited it when the sun’s glare off the snow made the poem he’d written, “Dedication,” impossible to read. But perhaps the […]
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Aaron Smith’s Primer today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreFirst, Michael Wasson’s imagistic prose poetry fills the Saturday Essay. Wasson’s dreamlike narrative describes a first day of school from his childhood. Wasson recalls the teacher taking attendance, calling out, “who’s missing?” The question launches a lyrical investigation of the author’s memory and identity. Then, Julie Marie Wade reviews the poetry collection Ghost/Landscape, a successful collaboration between Kristina Marie Darling and John […]
...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.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Dennis Maloney’s Listening to Tao Yuan Ming today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreFirst, National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy talks with Deesha Philyaw in the Saturday Interview. They discuss themes pertinent to Detroit, the setting of Flournoy’s book, The Turner House. Some include housing discrimination, hip-hop, respectability politics, and the challenges of writing truthfully about the African American experience in that storied and troubled city. Then, Julie Marie Wade […]
...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 Rob Carney’s 88 Maps today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreJulie Marie Wade reviews Christopher DeWeese’s The Father of the Arrow is the Thought today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreFirst, Brandon Hicks gives us “Leonard: The Dad From A Different Generation.” Next, Gayle Brandeis offers a personal and insightful portrait of female body image in the Saturday Essay, “Thunder, Thighs.” Before Brandeis’s own view of her thighs was changed forever, they were her “friends,” her “freedom.” After much introspection, Brandeis learns strategies for coping with the […]
...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.
...moreIn the Saturday Essay, Gila Lyons laments Asif Kapadia’s portrayal of Amy Winehouse in the documentary, Amy, and contrasts the film with the recent biopic of Kurt Cobain. The gender-based double standard is alive and well here. Women are still being objectified and martyred by the media. “The film eschews Amy the artist for Amy […]
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