The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat With Camille Rankine
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Camille Rankine about her new book Incorrect Merciful Impulses, history, and trying to be a writer every day.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Angela Flournoy
My ambition is personal. I don’t think I need to succeed so that the race can succeed.
Do Not Rise by Beth Bachmann
Keegan Finberg reviews Beth Bachmann's Do Not Rise today in Rumpus Poetry.
Swinging Modern Sounds #70: Alien Now!
Maybe, in terms of idiom, The Dabbers are like a thrash rock and roll version of the Cocteau Twins, or what the This Mortal Coil would sound like if the Dead Boys tried to cover one of their albums.
The Opposite of People By Patrick Ryan Frank
Brian McKenna reviews Patrick Ryan Frank's The Opposite of People today in Rumpus Poetry.
FUNNY WOMEN #135: Personal G”wow”th
As you forge ahead on the journey called elementary school, each of these areas will be instrumental in helping you rocket to prosperity or plummet to repugnant mediocrity.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Nighthawks
We live in a moment, we have an experience, and we demand to understand what is happening.
Conversations with Writers Braver than Me: Anne Roiphe
Anne Roiphe on respecting writers’ freedom to express the truth of their experiences, while also respecting their subjects’ prerogative to shun them for it.
Next Letter in the Mail: Summer Pierre
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Summer Pierre! Summer sends us a beautifully illustrated letter about leaving her family to take a solo…
Next Letter for Kids: Lois Sepahban
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Lois Sepahban! Lois writes about all the animals that have shared her life with her, including a very special dog named Strider, an Australian Shepherd…
I Hear the Place That Can’t Be Named
It is remembering and loving anyway—not forgetting—that binds us even if the recollections are absurd, undignified, cruel, or humiliating.