The Last Poem I Loved: “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins
I wish I could tell my daughter to please don’t leave her world. To stay where she is as long as she can.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #68: A Way of Life
The thing about Scott Tuma is: the immense pathos of the recordings... Almost no one, frankly, is allowed to sound this sad and continue to have a musical career.
The Yellow Door by Amy Uyematsu
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Amy Uyematsu's The Yellow Door today in Rumpus Poetry.
Silent anatomies by Monica Ong
Kenji Liu reviews Monica Ong's Silent Anatomies today in Rumpus Poetry.
Next Letter in the Mail: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Christine Hyung-Oak Lee! Christine writes to us about taking down walls, including her physical mask of makeup. This…
Next Letter for Kids: Kristin Tubb
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Kristin Tubb! Kristin writes about her love of comets, planets, and stars. She also explains the 12- and 13-sign horoscopes. Don’t miss out on this…
Roll Deep by Major Jackson
J Mae Barizo reviews Major Jackson's Roll Deep today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: A Couple of Puzzles
This was the first pure poetry I ever knew. Sung out loud more or less to no one on a theme of longing. Wife. Sons. Rags. Snow. Stalks of corn.
This Is a Refugee Camp
Zoe and I got an email the other day from Stephen Dau, a writer and expat who’s been living in Belgium the last ten years or so. He wanted to…
Swan Feast by Natalie Eilbert
Julie Marie Wade reviews Natalie Eilbert's Swan Feast today in Rumpus Poetry.
Heliopause by Heather Christle
Barbara Berman reviews Heather Christle's Heliopause today in Rumpus Poetry.
Make/Work Episode 35: Dru Farro
In Episode 35 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with scholar Dru Farro about his role on the fringes of academia, his deeply ingrained American reluctance to seek medical attention, and his eventual and abstract creative goals.