Blogs
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Body Thesaurus by Jennifer Militello
Julie Marie Wade reviews Jennifer Militello’s Body Thesaurus today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: When JFK Read Poetry
Not that one needs an excuse such as the imminent threat of nuclear armageddon to read poetry, but the early 1960s might have been a good time to turn to poems for comfort, insight, solace, and understanding about the disposition…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Ray Shea, Part II
Mark your calendars: the next Letter in the Mail, going out November 1, is a second letter from Ray Shea. Ray has contributed to our Readers Report series as well as our Last Book I Loved series, and has been…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Unveiling the new dates/site/faculty for Other Voices Querétaro, the writing program I run out of Mexico. Come join us June 27-July 6, with a hotbed of Rumpus alum faculty: Cecil Castellucci, Rob Roberge, Emily Rapp, Stacy Bierlein, and of course…
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Coming Close: Forty Essays About Philip Levine Edited by Edited by Mari L’esperance & Tomas Q Morin
Barbara Berman reviews Coming Close: Forty Essaya About Philip Levine today in Rumpus Poetry.
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We Lack in Equipment & Control by Jennifer Fortin
Wesley Rothman reviews Jennifer Fortin’s We Lack In Equipment & Control today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Poets’ Roundtable on Person and Persona
Lynn Melnick is moderating a discussion on person and persona in poetry on the Los Angeles Review of Books’ site.
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When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
Ryan Teitman reviews Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Was an Aztec today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Monica Drake
Monica Drake, author of Clown Girl and now The Stud Book, discusses the physicality of characters’ bodies, the complicated issues women face while aging, and the crucial nature of writing communities.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Art of Communion
There comes a time in the process of writing a poem when you find yourself putting the reader’s interests and desires ahead of your own as the poet. Not that the reader is a potted plant, I mean. Because the…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #51: Free For One and All
Dean Wareham is a great writer, and possessed of a strikingly astringent and dry-eyed view of things without pity or self-pity or undue kindness, and what follows, I trust, will give abundant evidence of this.
