Next Letter for Kids: Ellen Wittlinger
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Ellen Wittlinger! Ellen writes about the summer she left the Midwest and become a California girl! She tells us all about the great summer she spent…
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Dead Man’s Float by Jim Harrison
Denise K James reviews Jim Harrison's Dead Man's Float today in Rumpus Poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 22: Hayan Charara
The Problem with Me (Beginning with Abu Ghraib) Is the Problem with You (Ending Where the Earth’s Surface Appears to Meet the Sky) A dog outside is barking loudly. Inside,…
Next Letter in the Mail: Robert Arellano
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from author Robert Arellano! Robert needs your help naming a giant, grimy teddy bear with a cigarette-burned eye. Subscribe…
National Poetry Month Day 21: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Four Long Years At Court I really miss the forest. And how I used to hide there with the Queen. I miss how we used to dance and how we’d…
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Zoe Zolbrod
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Zoe Zolbrod about her new book The Telling, pushing against victim narratives, how the conversation surrounding sexual abuse has evolved, and the melding of research with memoir.
Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #3: Poetry That Asks You to Sit and Sort This Whole Thing Out
I’m spending National Poetry Month at the Millay Colony, former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My colleague and friend, poet and writer Jen Fitzgerald, will be writing the Mixtape…
National Poetry Month Day 20: Sarah Blake
For Max Ok, so you know someone who died horrifically Ok, so you know an animal who died horrifically In a fire let’s say or a building’s collapse
Green Migraine by Michael Dickman
Caitlin Mackenzie reviews Michael Dickman's Green Migraine today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Dugout
So much of politics is symbolic speech in the service of the syncopations of the lives we actually live. But the ways we gather to vote is with our bodies. It’s the dance that goes along with those rhythms.
National Poetry Month Day 19: Aziza Barnes
Steeple Talk didn’t know what they were called those white poles jutting out of baptist rooves. they want you to know from a mile away that’s a church, go the…
National Poetry Month Day 18: Tarfia Faizullah
Flawless A kind of perfection, each singular flicker of fireflies left untrapped