Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences by Carol Frost
Caitlin Neely reviews Carol Frost's Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Sound & Vision: Shannon Conley
Hard-rocking artist Shannon Conley talks to Allyson McCabe about the exceptional more-than-a-tribute band Lez Zeppelin, her unconventional upbringing by Hindu Baptists, and her role as Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
FUNNY WOMEN #125: My Almost Valentine
Also, when I said I don’t like Mexican food, I only meant that I dislike the way it tastes in my mouth and the way I feel after consuming it.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Why Jihadists Love Postmodern Poetry
David Biespiel's Poetry Wire returns with a powerful take on fascism and violence and postmodernism.
Next Letter in the Mail: John Fischer
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Brooklyn-based writer John Fischer. John writes to us about family while at a Cleveland clinic where his…
Next Letter for Kids: Cecil Castellucci
Our next Letter for Kids comes from author and Letters for Kids Correspondence Coordinator Cecil Castellucci! Cecil wants to know what your favorite books are, and what favorite authors you’d like…
Swinging Modern Sounds #62: Stillness as Metaphor
I am after a music that renders life as it is, and which invites in the intermittent pulsations of life.
A Sunny Place with Adequate Water by Mary Biddinger
Danielle Susi reviews Mary Biddinger's A Sunny Place with Adequate Water today in Rumpus Poetry.
Letters for Kids Signed Book Giveaway
We’re doing another Letters for Kids giveaway! This time, win a brand new, hardcover, autographed copy of Moonpenny Island by Tricia Springstubb (who also wrote our 2/1 letter, about to be…
The Night We’re Not Sleeping In by Sean Bishop
Amanda Silberling reviews Sean Bishop's The Night We're Not Sleeping In today in Rumpus Poetry.
Make/Work Episode 27: Saul Melman
In episode 27 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with emergency room physician and visual artist Saul Melman about the parallels between creative practice and caregiving.
The Last Poem I Loved: “Locking Yourself Out Then Trying To Get Back In” by Raymond Carver
Some deep part of me thinks that this is all poetry is, at best: a clear record of a moment where something catches.