I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems by Eileen Myles
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Eileen Myles's I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Next Letter for Kids: Jenny Lundquist
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Jenny Lundquist! Jenny writes to us about her childhood when she was painfully shy and about one particular incident when she was bullied and…
Next Letter in the Mail: Kyle Boelte
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Kyle Boelte! Kyle writes to us about how writing his book freed him to try…
Sometimes English Needs to be Broken
Nationally touring poet, performer, and writer Fatimah Asghar is “almost always in-between two places.” Her parents were born in Kashmir and Pakistan. They moved to the US, and died when…
Errata by Lisa Fay Coutley
Allison Donohue reviews Lisa Fay Coutley's Errata today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Old Friends Or Lovers
I was becoming awed by the wide horizon of the speech that arose out of an individual life lived in a single era and generation. I was becoming attracted to the writer’s creativity.
A Small Story About the Sky by Alberto Rios
Jeff Lennon reviews Alberto Rios's A Small Story About the Sky today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Ruined Elegance by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Christina Cook reviews Fiona Sze-Lorrain's The Ruined Elegance today in Rumpus Poetry.
What Eyes Does Your Poem Have?
And this is how poetry derives its power, its agency, by the ways it can direct the eye. But the poet has a different toolkit from a visual artist. The world of a poem builds incrementally: it grows, it accretes.
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Chris Frantz’s Pocket Camera
What I want/need/love most are the tools that allow me to document what I see and experience, at home and in my travels, now and in the future.
What’s Coming Up for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club is finishing up this month’s book, Reginald Dwayne Betts’s incredible Bastards of the Reagan Era, and getting ready for our online chat with the author (my favorite part…
The Gods Are Dead by Joanna C. Valente
Anthony Cappo reviews Joanna C. Valente's The Gods Are Dead today in Rumpus Poetry.