Stealing Sugar From the Castle: Selected Poems 1950–2013 by Robert Bly
Damon Ferrell Marbut reviews Robert Bly's Stealing Sugar From the Castle: Selected Poems 1950 - 2013" today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Dispatch from the Carnival #2: The Snake Charmer
Sideshows themselves are a place where people come to see a public display of their private fears. Fear of deformity, of a disruption of the gender binary, of mutation, of disfigurement, of a crossover with the animal world, of being out of proportion.
Lit-Link Round-up
Flavorwire’s 50 Books that define the last 5 years in literature. It’s a hell of a list. If you’re getting online for the first time in a week, National Book…
Miss Plastique by Lynn Levin
Antonia Clark reviews Lynn Levin's Miss Plastique today in Rumpus Poetry.
Imagematic Writing
Screenwriter Scott Myers explains how closely poetry relates to screenwriting over on his Go Into the Story blog.
Contrapuntal by Christopher Kondrich
Connor Fisher reviews Christopher Kondrich's Contrapuntal today in Rumpus Poetry.
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…