Blogs
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The Last Book I Loved: Heather Has Two Mommies
“Did everyone but her have a daddy?” Why—at age three—would you weep for a parent you didn’t have and had never known? I didn’t buy it.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poem as Whistling Father
Isn’t it worth wondering, then, where does a poem take you after it calls you in, calls you from your life into your creative psyche?
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Letters for Kids Signed Book Giveaway
We’re doing another Letters for Kids giveaway! Win a beautiful hardcover edition of The Key & The Flame, signed by the author Claire M. Caterer! (Claire also wrote our next Letter for Kids.) All you have to do for a chance to…
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National Poetry Month Day 27: “Scientific” by Marisa Siegel
Scientific A pond / reflecting / koi swimming slipping through strands / of refraction. Cue shadow and its companion. The pathology justifies nothing / the disease has created.
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National Poetry Month Day 26: “The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road” by Ada Limón
The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road That we might walk out into the woods together, and afterwards make toast in our sock feet, still damp from the fern’s wet grasp, the spiky needles stuck to our legs, that’s all…
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National Poetry Month Day 25: “Poem For Her In Time” by Christian Anton Gerard
Poem For Her In Time –After Her and Wallace Stevens I. Thirteen days. This morning I counted, read Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Aracelis González Asendorf
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from writer Aracelis González Asendorf. Aracelis González Asendorf writes to us from sunny Florida about the joys of family and the Cuban tradition of pig roasts! Aracelis was born in Cuba…
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Next Letter for Kids: Claire Caterer
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Claire Caterer! Claire writes to us about her outdoor wild friend Pete the cardinal. Pete’s not like other cardinals but he has won Claire’s heart, and he’ll win yours too. This letter is handwritten…
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National Poetry Month Day 24: “Imagénes” by Juan Sánchez Peláez, translated by Guillermo Parra
Imágenes I Tú, que asímismo en la copa de tu verbo desbordas el líquido. Yo, que despeño tu grito
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Red Deer by Anne Marie Macari
Dana Johnson reviews Anne Marie Macari’s Red Deer today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Nicky Beer
In Episode 10 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, poet Nicky Beer chats about her new collection, The Octopus Game, turning subject matter into art, and how we’re all just shape-shifting actors trying to get through the day.