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Butcher’s Tree by Feng Sun Chen

Take the omniscience and time-weary voice of myths, add in the best parts of fables, namely the anthropomorphic language and the supernatural weirdness, ground it in some extremely compelling poetry, and you’re still nowhere near what’s happening in this book.

Partyknife by Dan Magers

When James Wright said, “I have wasted my life,” Dan Magers must haven taken it to heart.

Blogs

Writing Rules From Colson Whitehead

Want a free writing lesson? Colson Whitehead has some helpful tips over at The New York Times’ Sunday Book Review. If you missed it, be sure to read Nancy Smith’s Rumpus interview with…

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Lit-Link Round-Up

Man Booker longlist announced . . . The deliciously subversive Paula Boemer’s novel, NINE MONTHS, coming soon from Soho. Soho, I should add, is cranking lately. They took Alex Shakar’s…

A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories

We are still in that time in our history where public figures come out of invisible closets largely built by a public insatiable in its desire to know all the intimate details of the private lives of very public people.

Scared Text by Eric Baus

A metamorphosis occurs among the prose poems of Eric Baus’ collection, Scared Text, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. We are the audience, the spectators, but also part of…

Poetry

Where I’m Reading: Milk Bar

It’s Saturday morning, and so I’m sitting in a coffee shop which is in relative close proximity to my apartment. I’ve been going to coffee shops on Saturday mornings for…

Advice for Lovers by Julian Talamantez Brolaski

“A rose is arrows is eros,” as one poem has it, and who is to argue? Love and lyricism are all the better for their queerness. Brolaski, with a powerfully trans poetic, instructs us on just this fact, cloying power dynamics, pulling hair, and refusing any of the quaint old boundaries.

SELF-MADE MAN #13: Queerly Beloved

I see sixteen-year-olds now, with their subway chatter and baby fat, and try to imagine the ways they are saving each other’s lives.

Happy Release Day!

If you’re a member of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club (and if you aren’t, here you go), then you should have received your copy of Leigh Stein’s Dispatch From the…

Poetry

Where I’m Reading

Editor’s Note: Back in June, I made a video for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. I read a poem from our June selection, Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts among the people…

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Lit-Link Round-up

The inimitably incisive Steve Almond rips Romney’s “truth problem” a new one. And here, the freaky Almond interviews the freakier Jennifer Spiegel, author of The Freak Chronicles, on The Nervous…

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