Why I Chose Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Fortune for Your Disaster for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose Dunya Mikhail’s In Her Feminine Sign for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose t’ai freedom ford’s & more black for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose Eve L. Ewing’s 1919 for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s Lima :: Limón for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose Franny Choi’s Soft Science for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose Hala Alyan’s The Twenty-Ninth Year for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose Sally Wen Mao’s Oculus for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose Marwa Helal’s Invasive species for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose Natasha Trethewey’s Monument for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose Kyle Dargan’s Anagnorisis for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Why I Chose José Olivarez’s Citizen Illegal for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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...moreWhy I Chose Justin Phillip Reed’s Indecency for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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...moreWhy I Chose Shara Lessley’s The Explosive Expert’s Wife for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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...moreWhy I Chose Registers of Illuminated Villages for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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...moreWhy I Chose Sarah Blake’s Let’s Not Live On Earth for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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...moreWhy I Chose Barbara Jane Reyes’s Invocation to Daughters for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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...moreWhy I Chose Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf a Wolf for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
When I read one of Kaveh Akbar’s poems, I often find myself entranced by the beauty of his lines and marveling at how both the lines and the poems contain incredible strength in seeming delicacy.
...moreWhy I Chose Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s Rocket Fantastic for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s third collection, Rocket Fantastic, is a beautiful book which asks the reader to live in a world where gender and language are both fluid and linked together in a dance which swings, sways, and surprises at every turn. I’ve been a fan of Calvocoressi’s work for a long time, having taught both her previous books […]
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 15): “Southern History”
We can’t hide from our history and we can’t pass it on to future generations.
...moreWhy I Chose Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s Interrupted Geographies for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I still remember the time many (many) years ago, as an undergrad, when my professor dropped Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and Sir Walter Ralegh’s response on the class and launched into a discussion of the pastoral tradition. Years later, when, as I was putting together a syllabus for a survey class, […]
...moreWhy I Chose Erika L. Sánchez’s Lessons on Expulsion for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Before I tell you more, a quick reminder that in order to receive your copy of Lessons on Expulsion, read along with the Poetry Book Club, and participate in our exclusive chat with Erika, you’ll need to to subscribe by May 20! I want to start with these lines from Erika L. Sánchez’s poem “Crossing, which appears […]
...moreWhy I Chose Nikki Wallschlaeger’s Crawlspace for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I’m always interested in the work of poets who use form in subversive ways, and while it’s true that the sonnet has long ceased to be just a love song, what Nikki Wallschlaeger does with it in her new collection Crawlspace, soon to be released by Bloof Books, is brilliant. The book is a collection of fifty-five sonnets, […]
...moreThe Rumpus National Poetry Month Project
Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month by running new poems from poets we admire. We feature a different poet each day, and aim to illustrate the variety in voices and styles of poetry being written today. New poems will appear weekday afternoons at 3 p.m. PT, and weekends at noon PT. We’ll post […]
...moreWhy I Chose When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities for April’s Poetry Book Club
I am drawn to poetry about the difficulties of family, about the pain of feeling one is a disappointment to their parents, about the sense of separation that can come as a result. Chen Chen’s debut collection is filled with work which explores this universe. This is tricky subject matter to tackle, because it lends itself […]
...moreWhy I Chose Adrian Matejka’s Map to the Stars for March Poetry Book Club
It started, as it often does, with a recommendation from a friend, in this case Gabrielle Calvocoressi. She sent me an email saying “You have to look at this book.” I would have anyway, because I’ve been a fan of Adrian Matejka’s work for a long time, and in fact, I wanted his last book, The […]
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