The Boss by Victoria Chang
Barbara Berman reviews Victoria Chang's The Boss today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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…
Who Pays Writers? We Asked the Editors
In the free preview edition of the new online journal Scratch, which we posted about here, web editors discussed their jobs and paying writers.
Recalculating by Charles Bernstein
Sean Singer reviews Charles Bernstein's Recalculating today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: News of the Weird in Poetryland
New book reports postmodernists forced to write in rhyme and meter Exposing widespread abuses faced by beginning poets writing in postmodern verses, a new book titled “Between the Lines,” revealed…
Rare Footage of O’Hara, Ginsberg, Baraka Emerges
Yesterday, avant-garde cinema legend Jonas Mekas posted remarkable archival footage of Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’hara, Amiri Baraka (who still went by Leroi Jones), and Ray Bremser reading together in 1959.…
Eliot’s “Prufrock” Gets Comic Book Makeover
Let us go then, you and I… Montreal illustrator Julian Peters has just released the first nine-pages of his comic-book adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s classic poem, “The Love Song of…
Dear Beast Loveliness: Poems of the Body by Tim J. Myers
Damon Marbut reviews Tim J. Myers's Dear Beast Loveliness: Poems of the Body today in Rumpus Poetry.