Poets’ Roundtable on Person and Persona
Lynn Melnick is moderating a discussion on person and persona in poetry on the Los Angeles Review of Books’ site.
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When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
Ryan Teitman reviews Natalie Diaz's When My Brother Was an Aztec today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Interview with Monica Drake
Monica Drake, author of Clown Girl and now The Stud Book, discusses the physicality of characters' bodies, the complicated issues women face while aging, and the crucial nature of writing communities.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Art of Communion
There comes a time in the process of writing a poem when you find yourself putting the reader’s interests and desires ahead of your own as the poet. Not that…
Swinging Modern Sounds #51: Free For One and All
Dean Wareham is a great writer, and possessed of a strikingly astringent and dry-eyed view of things without pity or self-pity or undue kindness, and what follows, I trust, will give abundant evidence of this.
The Sunday Rumpus Book Review: If I’d Known You Were Coming by Kate Milliken
What we do to each other in moments breeds a kind of emotional genealogy that can’t be undone. The characters in Kate Milliken’s debut collection, If I’d Known You Were…
Lit-Link Round-up
Neil Gaiman on why our future depends on libraries, reading and writing, in The Guardian. The history of the dystopian novel. Submit to the Danahy Fiction Prize at the University…
Last Book I Loved: Thieves I’ve Known
Thomas H. McNeely explains why Tom Kealey's THIEVES I'VE KNOWN is the last book he loved.
He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs by Leonard Gontarek
A. V. Christie reviews Leonard Gontarek's He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs today in Rumpus Poetry.
Next Letter For Kids: Michael Reisman
We’re sending our next Letter For Kids from Michael Reisman! Michael is the author of the Simon Bloom Series, which follows the story of the title character who finds a…
X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess
Rebecca Hazelton reviews X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess today in Rumpus Poetry.