Blogs
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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.
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Damnatio Memoriae by Michael Meyerhofer
J. Scott Bugher reviews Michael Meyerhofer’s Damnatio Memoriae today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Letters to Borges by Stephen Kuusisto
Barbara Berman reviews Stephen Kuusisto’s Letters to Borges today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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.
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Aimless Love by Billy Collins
Alexander Shafer reviews Billy Collins’s Aimless Love today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Sisterhood by Julie Enszer
Julie Marie Wade reviews Julie Enszer’s Sisterhood today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Is Poetry Ready for Pandora?
Granted my affliction does not in any way parallel the gravity of close friends who aren’t so much battling but, as Christopher Hitchens put it, being battled by cancer, and fatally, I fear, but my affliction, by contrast, my woe,…
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Make/Work Episode 6: LuLing Osofsky
Every creative laborer has a different story to tell about how they negotiate their relationship between their creative work and their paycheck.
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The Rumpus Interview with Chris Abani
Chris Abani sits down to talk about the dangers and seduction of fiction, literature as transformation, growing up in Nigeria, and how “our every justification is a story.”
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Equivalents by Jessica Baran
Sara Habein reviews Jessica Baran’s Equivalents today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Last summer I found a small box stashed away in my apartment, a box filled with enough Vicoden to kill me. I would have sworn that I’d thrown them away years earlier, but apparently not. I stared at the white…
