National Poetry Month Day 1: “To Proceed, You Must First Understand” by Barbara Jane Reyes
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2015! For the last six years, we here at The Rumpus have run a new poem every day in April (and often into May) to…
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Habitation: Collected Poems by Sam Hamill
Linda Ashok reviews Sam Hamill's Habitation today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: A Defense of Conceptual Poetry
My friends, I'm deeply humbled by the opportunity to speak before the most important poetic body in the world, the Internet.
Swinging Modern Sounds #64: Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!
Many of you will not want to believe that “Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!” by the Californian punk band the Urinals, is the greatest song ever written, but that is simply because there is some kind of vise or blood-occluding mechanism attached to the thinking and feeling part of your limbic region.
Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems 1970-2014 by Don McKay
Jim Johnstone reviews Don McKay's Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems 1970-2014 today in Rumpus Poetry.
Animalities by David Dodd Lee
Jessica Guzman Alderman reviews David Dodd Lee's Animalities today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Do-Over by Kathleen Ossip
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kathleen Ossip's The Do-Over today in Rumpus Poetry.
FUNNY WOMEN #127: Low-Maintenance
Hey eligible, employed, virile men of the world! Aren’t you sick of hot girls who are so high-maintenance... and don’t even realize it?
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Paul Vangelisti
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Paul Vangelisti about Amiri Baraka's S O S Poems 1961-2013, as well as Baraka's place among American writers and the ways in which his poetry and politics intersected and collided.
Letters for Kids Signed Book Giveaway
We’re doing another Letters for Kids giveaway! Win a signed copy of Frans Vischer’s Fuddles, with a special hand-drawn illustration just for you! (Frans also wrote our next Letter for Kids.)…
Barely Composed by Alice Fulton
Casey Patrick reviews Alice Fulton's Barely Composed today in Rumpus Poetry.
Coming in April from The Rumpus Book Clubs
We’re very excited about our selections for April, and we hope that you will be as well. Maybe so excited that if you aren’t a member yet, you’ll become one.…