Blogs
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The Declarable Future by Jennifer Boyden
Marisa Siegel reviews Jennifer Boyden’s The Declarable Future today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Soul in Space by Noelle Kocot
Diego Báez reviews Noelle Kocot’s Soul in Space today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Reading My Hate Mail
Every since I wrote this weekend with the news that I’m stepping down, after 11 years, as a columnist on poetry for my local paper, I’ve received some very nice farewells. I mean, very nice. One woman wrote me to…
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No Crying in the Barbershop: A Conversation with Lisa Russ-Spaar and Zayne Turner
Her Kind, a literary community powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts chose hair as its September theme. Lisa Russ-Spaar and Zayne Turner’s conversation on the site responded to the question “Why do we care so much about hair?”
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A Symposium on Revenge
The Threepenny Review’s Fall 2013 issue includes a section called “A Symposium on Revenge” with selections by Geoff Dyer, Robert Pinsky, James Lasdun, Adam Phillips, and Louise Glück. Threepenny, so lovingly, made Glück’s essay available online
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FUNNY WOMEN #107: Lifetime Does the Classics
To celebrate our growing female fan base (99.98%!) we’re remaking some of the great classics–only this time the women are stronger, deadlier, and more passionate than ever.
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Where I’m Reading: The Brown Corduroy Couch
In the three years since my friend Abby gave me her couch, she moved four times, changed jobs twice, became engaged, got married, and gave birth. During that same time frame, I didn’t move, married no one, popped out zero…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Have you heard about the American Writers Museum? The Little Village That Could: New Mexico’s Madrid (home of Rumpus alum Emily Rapp) rallies after a serious flood. Patrick O’Neil leaves his sex buddy hanging…uh…literally, over at The Weeklings. The Rise…
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Companion Grasses by Brian Teare
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Book I Loved: My Struggle by Karl Ove Knaussgard
It was strange. Volume One of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume memoir/novel was, with one traumatic exception near the end, the story of a typical young man. He had a typical childhood broken up only by a typical divorce. He was…
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Solecism by Rosebud Ben-Oni
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Rosebud Ben-Oni’s Solecism today in Rumpus Poetry.
