Blogs
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Reading Dante by Prue Shaw and The Divine Comedy Translated by Clive James
Barbara Berman reviews Prue Shaw’s Reading Dante From Here to Eternity and Clive James’s translation of The Divine Comedy today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Darkened Rooms of Summer by Jared Carter
James Crews reviews Jared Carter’s Darkened Rooms of Summer today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 6
As a poet you are called to be absorbed and aroused and enchanted and intoxicated and beguiled. You embrace occasions that leave you seduced and transfixed, overpowered and enraptured.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Sparrow
We’re getting ready to send out the next Letter in the Mail, and it’s a good one. In Boston for a reading, the poet Sparrow wanders the city observing and speaking his thoughts into a tape recorder. Later, he puts…
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Interrobang by Jessica Piazza
Melissa-Leigh Gore reviews Jessica Piazza’s Interrobang today in Rumpus Poetry.
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When I Was Straight by Julie Marie Wade
Julie Enszer reviews Julie Marie Wade’s When I Was Straight today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Book of Poems I Loved: Sleeping With the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
No one writes poems like [Harryette] Mullen. And if Mullen’s poems teach us anything about the larger context of making poems, the lesson might be that no one should write poems like her.
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SELF-MADE MAN #30: Tenderness
I might inject testosterone every Thursday, but each man here is his own snowflake mix of glory days and Hail Mary second chances.
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American Chew by Matthew Lippman
Michael Klein reviews Matthew Lippman’s American Chew today in Rumpus Poetry.
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In the Low Houses by Heather Dobbins
Caitlin Mackenzie reviews Heather Dobbins’s In the Low Houses today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Make/Work Episode 14: Dan Nelson and Lexa Walsh
In Episode 14 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with creative couple Dan Nelson and Lexa Walsh about the challenges and benefits of building a life with someone who’s also engaged in a creative pursuit.