Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Robinson Alone
An excerpt from the genre-bending Robinson Alone, exploring the life of poet/painter/musician/critic Weldon Kees.
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Andrew James Weatherhead is from Chicago, Illinois. At one point, his grandparents lived in Florida. He currently lives in New York and is getting his MFA from The New School. He also blogs.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: On Wearing a Mustache
To wear a mustache is to travel through time, and to travel through, too, to another identity...
Behold My Clearance Discounts
Nick Demske operates with a kind of magnetic-yet-repulsive force, powerfully driven by various tensions of opposites.
Monkey Bars
The result of Lippman’s perpetual contentiousness is a collection that is confrontational in the best sense of the word, interrogating the reader, himself, and America pretty much as a whole…
Joey was Dorothy, and I was Almost Dorothy
Page after page finds de la Flor purposefully mixing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry all together in long prosy lines that bend genre and gender, time and space.
Bobcat Country
Page after page, Bobcat Country stirs both the counter-intuitively satisfying “Should I be reading this?” queasiness of the Confessional poetry of Berryman, Sexton, and Snodgrass, and the unsettlingly provocative “Is…