The Spiritual Fact of Our Oneness: A Conversation with Charif Shanahan
“The world is literally and figuratively on fire. Of all the things we could do with our lives, why write poems?”
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National Poetry Month Day 2: Virginia Konchan
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 1: Su Hwang
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
RUMPUS BOOK CLUB EXCERPT from THE LOST JOURNALS OF SACAJEWEA by DEBRA MAGPIE EARLING
Our May 2023 Rumpus Book Club selection is Debra Magpie Earling's The Lost Journals of Sacajewea.
Strength and Feeling in Motion: A conversation with Henri Cole about Gravity and Center
Horses are a nice metaphor for the sonnet’s strength and feeling in motion. Beauty and violent power come together in an animal form. When I write, I have the feeling of being a rider. As the poem gallops forward, I am knocked about.
Travels in Paradise: Pico Iyer’s The Half Known Life
To try and gain a level of peace amidst the disappointment and chaos of the world is perhaps the only real paradise.
A reflection on reflection: An interview with Katherine Indermaur
I did some research on how the vertical slash was used in different contexts, and fell in love with the Sheffer stroke.
A story is like a nomad: An Interview with Geetanjali Shree
We must return again and again to the whole issue of hegemony of the English language
Language as Possibility: Renee Gladman’s Plans for Sentences
. . . think of Gladman’s work as engaging the imagination the way an architect approaches three-dimensional space with a two-dimensional blueprint.