Next Letter for Kids: Lisa Schroeder
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Lisa Scroeder! Lisa writes to us about going through a big box of letters written by her great-grandma to her parents way back…
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Angel Park by Roberto F. Santiago
Melissa Adamo reviews Roberto F. Santiago's Angel Park today in Rumpus Poetry.
Next Letter in the Mail: Kristen Arnett
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from writer Kristen Arnett. Kristen writes to us about some weird months after her two best…
Barbara Berman’s National Poetry Month Picks
Barbara Berman offers some quality suggestions on poetry to read during the month of April, and beyond.
National Poetry Month Day 7: from “The Singing Ape, Or, Life in Pink” by Amy Letter
from “The Singing Ape, Or, Life in Pink”
National Poetry Month Day 6: Honorée Jeffers
According to the Testimony to the Grand Jury of Newport, Rhode Island by the Sailor John Cranston, After Throwing a Coromantee Woman Into the Sea, James DeWolf, the Captain of the Slave Ship…
National Poetry Month Day 5: “Innocence: A Memoir” by Kathleen Ossip
Innocence: A Memoir All souls grow roughly, out of careless errors. This month brings two things: the moon and you, both at my breasts.
National Poetry Month Day 4: “Both/Both” by Oliver Bendorf
BOTH/BOTH “We were just kids.” –Patti Smith I’m asking if she wants dumbbells on the top or sort of smack down
Letters for Kids Newsletter!
Our very first Letters for Kids newsletter is almost ready! It will have words from some of your kids! And artwork from some of your kids! It’s going to be…
National Poetry Month Day 2: “Pending Approval for Suicide Barriers on the Golden Gate Bridge, Questions for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors” by D. Gilson
Pending Approval for Suicide Barriers on the Golden Gate Bridge, Questions for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Chairman, can you update us on fog? Chairman, how many nets can…
The Last Book I Loved: The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
In letter-writing, we are not really talking, but the words represent the deep-heldness of our communication.