David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 10 Things Successful Poets Do
Over on Lifehack, there’s one of those smarmy little lists to help you better yourself called 10 Things Positive People Don’t Do. Enjoy. Reading it got me thinking. What are 10 things…
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SELF-MADE MAN #25: Risk
I need to be here, all skin and beard and elevator heart, where everything happens at once: the people we’ve been and the people we’re becoming creating a weird physics, time bending us toward each other, nine million stories bumping into the night, each of us calling the others home.
door of thin skins by Shira Dentz
Nicole Walker reviews Shira Dentz's door of thin skins today in Rumpus Poetry.
FUNNY WOMEN #111: About Our Impending Nuptials
We would like something tasteful, elegant, modern, luxurious, artsy, classy, chic, and original, but also with a bit of simple lightness and a homey, retro feel. And also some danger.
How do you dramatise writing poetry?
The Economist blog has a Q&A with John Krokidas, the writer/director of Kill Your Darlings, a film about Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Carr.
Lit-Link Round-Up
The Airship Advent Calendar: author trivia daily. Guy Intoci of Dzanc Books acquires Patrick O’Neil’s memoir, already out in France–congrats on both ends. Powerful essay,”Air Hunger,” by Angela Giles Patel,…
The Gorgeous Nothings by Emily Dickinson
Camden Avery reviews Emily Dickinson's The Gorgeous Nothings today in Rumpus Poetry.
Make/Work: A New Rumpus Podcast
We're excited to announce Make/Work, a new Rumpus podcast hosted by Scott Pinkmountain.
Becoming a Poetry Genius
Howard Ramsey II discusses what becoming a Poetry Genius entails and how that process relates to the digital humanities in an essay on Poetry Genius, a sister site of Rap…
The Mining Camps of the Mouth by George Kalamaras
David Peak reviews George Kalamaras's The Mining Camps of the Mouth today in Rumpus Poetry.