Blogs
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Fortress By Kristina Marie Darling
Sandra Marchetti reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Fortress today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Next Letter for Kids: Edith Cohn
We’re sending our next Letter For Kids from Edith Cohn. Edith writes to us about mysteries, and what it takes to solve them. She also gives an inside look at how writers try to keep us from guessing the real villain…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson realizes that hope shifts and flutters and changes within you.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Amy Butcher
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail and it’s from Amy Butcher! Amy asks did we enjoy our Halloweens? Then, she tells us about about one of her most memorable Halloweens, when she was 15 years old,…
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Erin Belieu
In Episode 7 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick talks with poet Erin Belieu about her new collection, Slant Six, her work with VIDA, and how we’re all just onions.
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Rumpus Poetry: When at a Certain Party in NYC
Wherever you’re from sucks,/and wherever you grew up sucks,/and everyone here lives in a converted/chocolate factory or deconsecrated church
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Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows by Eugenia Leigh
Kenji Liu reviews Eugenia Leigh’s Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Canoodlers by Andrea Bennett
Melissa Adamo reviews Andrea Bennett’s Canoodlerstoday in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Michael Bazzett
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Michael Bazzett about his new book, You Must Remember This, the malleability of memory, and humor in poetry.
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Jane Byrne (1934–2014)
Jane Byrne, Fighting Jane. Mike Royko called her Mayor Bossy. She ran against the machine and squashed it, the whole goddamned machine.
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The New Testament by Jericho Brown
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Jericho Brown’s The New Testament today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Make/Work Episode 22: Mick
In episode 22 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with guitarist and songwriter Mick about his childhood abuse, drug use, and the crucial need for alternatives to Katy Perry.