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The Rumpus Interview With Ted Travelstead! When Ted recalls the funniest thing he has seen firsthand, he shares a memory about his wife and it is obvious that he loves his wife. I found his…
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National Poetry Month Day 13: “Ghosts” by Brachah Goykadosh
Ghosts Ghosts who I loved wandering through the glass doors and the turnstiles without seeing me walking swiftly behind them.
It’s No Good by Kirill Medvedev
David Peak reviews Kirill Medvedev's It's No Good today in Rumpus Poetry.
Uncanny Valley by Jon Woodward
Andrew Field reviews Jon Woodward's Uncanny Valley today in Rumpus Poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 11: “Billy Divine” by Adam McGovern
Billy Divine The American Primeval is not the green garden we think we’ve lost it’s stark white cloudless sky above a cinder-gray shack
SELF-MADE MAN #21: Love Your Zombie
Sometimes I get this ragged wind in my chest. It’s a graveyard in there, too: instead of clothes holding my ghost shape, it’s my old self that calls out from beneath bone.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Politics and Post-Modernism?
No one can know for sure what literary historians will make of it, least of all me as I pound out an editorial about poetry every week. But if I…
National Poetry Month Day 10: “Seven Confessions: A Chapbook” by Julie Sheehan
Seven Confessions: A Chapbook
Song and Error by Averill Curdy
Maya Popa reviews Averill Curdy's Song and Error today in Rumpus Poetry.
Post Black? 5 Poems and 3 Notes on Culture, Craft and Race
The following piece was presented as “5 Poems and 3 Notes” in the panel “Post Black? Culture, Craft, and Race in Verse” at the 2013 AWP Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
National Poetry Month Day 9: “Stone Cold Jane” by Cornelius Eady
“Stone Cold Jane” is one of the tracks from Cornelius Eady’s new chapbook from Kattywompus Press, Book of Hooks. I say tracks because these are as much songs as poems.…