Blogs
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Make/Work Episode 23: Katherine Ball
In episode 23 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with the artist/activist Katherine Ball about the importance of the “yes” and the “no” and the poetry in creative activism.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran chats with the Rumpus Book Club about how Wolverhampton has changed over the years, the forthcoming film version of her new novel How to Build a Girl, chapatis, and how Blur hogs the pool table.
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Up Next in the Rumpus Book Clubs
There’s still time to get the December selections if you join either (or both!) the Rumpus Book and Poetry Book Clubs. What makes our book clubs special? Well, our first readers have a terrific track record of selecting truly amazing…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #59: Not a Folk Singer
There is a lot to learn from Vashti Bunyan, therefore, about how to live a self-designed life, and how to be unapologetic and decisive about the habit of songwriting.
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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.
