Blogs
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Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad by Alice Oswald
Brian Spears reviews Alice Oswald’s Memorial A Version of Homer’s Iliad today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Darktown Follies by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Sean Singer reviews Amaud Jamaul Johnson’s Darktown Follies today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Reckitt’s Blue by John Wilkinson
Patrick James Dunagan reviews John Wilkinson’s Reckitt’s Blue today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Make/Work Episode 7: Nate Query
Every creative laborer has a story about negotiating the relationship between their creative work and their paycheck. In Episode 7 of the podcast Scott Pinkmountain talks with Nate Query, bass player for The Decemberists and Black Prairie,
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Dear Weather Ghost by Melissa Ginsburg
Amy Pence reviews Melissa Ginsburg’s Dear Weather Ghost today in Rumpus Poetry.
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #10: “Satisfaction”
There was this thing that happened in the ’90s: a lot of women were making rock music. It seems simple to most of us here in the twenty-first century, but back then, it was apparently an extremely difficult concept to…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: In Defense of Derek Walcott
This past Sunday Teju Cole reviewed in the New York Times Derek Walcott’s The Poetry of Derek Walcott: 1948-2013, selected by Glyn Maxwell and published by FSG. The book is over 600 pages and traverses more than 50 years with…
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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.
