Darktown Follies by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Sean Singer reviews Amaud Jamaul Johnson's Darktown Follies today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Trapline by Caroline Goodwin
Lisa Cheby reviews Caroline Goodwin's Trapline today in Rumpus Poetry.
Reckitt’s Blue by John Wilkinson
Patrick James Dunagan reviews John Wilkinson's Reckitt's Blue today in Rumpus Poetry.
Make/Work Episode 7: Nate Query
Every creative laborer has a story about negotiating the relationship between their creative work and their paycheck. In Episode 7 of the podcast Scott Pinkmountain talks with Nate Query, bass player for The Decemberists and Black Prairie,
Dear Weather Ghost by Melissa Ginsburg
Amy Pence reviews Melissa Ginsburg's Dear Weather Ghost today in Rumpus Poetry.
PJ Harvey Tuesday #10: “Satisfaction”
There was this thing that happened in the ’90s: a lot of women were making rock music. It seems simple to most of us here in the twenty-first century, but…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: In Defense of Derek Walcott
This past Sunday Teju Cole reviewed in the New York Times Derek Walcott’s The Poetry of Derek Walcott: 1948-2013, selected by Glyn Maxwell and published by FSG. The book is…
SELF-MADE MAN #28: The Lion, the Lamb, and the Grown Man
The story of the lion and the lamb is itself a blur, as illusory as these hands bare-knuckling a speed bag, faster and faster until all you see is blood and ink so bright it glows.
Damnatio Memoriae by Michael Meyerhofer
J. Scott Bugher reviews Michael Meyerhofer's Damnatio Memoriae today in Rumpus Poetry.
Letters to Borges by Stephen Kuusisto
Barbara Berman reviews Stephen Kuusisto's Letters to Borges today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Lonely Voice #28: All Lives Are Interesting: My Father and Mavis Gallant
Alive, dead, what’s it matter to me, truly? I had her books then, I have her books now. Let others sing her praises today from the rooftops. For me, Gallant is all days.
Aimless Love by Billy Collins
Alexander Shafer reviews Billy Collins's Aimless Love today in Rumpus Poetry.