Contrapuntal by Christopher Kondrich
Connor Fisher reviews Christopher Kondrich's Contrapuntal today in Rumpus Poetry.
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FUNNY WOMEN #110: Ten Billion Tips to Becoming a Better Writer
There are a lot of writing tips out there, but here’s a comprehensive list from someone who’s been “there.”
Self-Made Man #24: Love Your Emergency
As I look toward the East River and my teenage summers, I sometimes see my old body continuing on without me, living the slow-and-steady life I’d planned for so carefully and not this spectacular mess I’ve come, I think, to prefer.
Virtual Seminars: Reed, Hayes, & Trethewey
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) sponsored program at University of Kansas, Don’t Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching African American Poetry, hosts virtual seminars with poets Nikki Giovanni, Terrance Hayes,…
Lit-Link Round-up
I want a girl who reads. “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” by Ariel Levy. Brace yourself. And brace yourself in an entirely different way for what the big publishing looks like on…
The Sunday Rumpus Review: Goodnight Nobody by Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan’s stories are snapshots. Stark vignettes. We see her characters in the middle of conflict, just at the moment of their potential undoing. In Rohan’s collection, Goodnight Nobody, she…
LAST BOOK I LOVED: Americanah
Tomi Obaro tells us why Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's AMERICANAH is her Last Book I Loved.
The Boss by Victoria Chang
Barbara Berman reviews Victoria Chang's The Boss today in Rumpus Poetry.
Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Don’t Exist by Agnieszka Kuciak
Kevin Dublin reviews Agnieszka Kuciak's Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Don't Exist today in Rumpus Poetry.
Life of ‘Pie’: Writer Finds Poetry in Fruit of Her Labor
USA Today recently wrote an article on Kate Lebo’s, A Commonplace Book of Pie, which features recipes and poems.
Lit-Link Round-up
Congrats to Rumpus co-owner (and boy meteor) Isaac Fitzgerald, new books editor at BuzzFeed. Can you drink like Dorothy Parker? “In my experience, there are about a dozen submissives for…