Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned
In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
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Poetry
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Threa Almontaser
I’m dream-ghost, phantasmal, falling through floors from sighing.
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Why We Chose Sumita Chakraborty’s Arrow for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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A Cave of Catharsis: Code by Charlotte Pence
Grief sneaks up on you, and so does this book.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Austin Araujo
In my dream, I give you a car to cross / that lonely little kiss of a border.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh discusses her new poetry collection, MUDDY MATTERHORN.
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Resistance Against Erasure: Talking with Marianne Chan
Marianne Chan discusses her debut poetry collection, ALL HEATHENS.
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Make the Words an Elsewhere: Magdalena Zurawski’s The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom
[Zurawski] is the advocate for the open exterior of poetry.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Janan Alexandra
when I can no longer call, / what else will have no name ?
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The Lonesome Home: A Conversation with Aria Aber
Aria Aber discusses her debut poetry collection, HARD DAMAGE.
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Paranoid Reality: Monica Sok’s A Nail the Evening Hangs On
A loss is a loss. Neither the circle nor the form can be completed.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #221: Noah C. Lekas
“Hopefully, the takeaway is the journey.”
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Karthik Sethuraman
we are within the reach / of some god
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Ailish Hopper
Every empire, a pretty / narrow waist // in someone’s speech.
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Why We Chose Benjamin Garcia’s Thrown in the Throat for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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This Huge, Colossal Joy: A Conversation with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison
Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison discuss their work.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Ugonna-Ora Owoh
I’m a citizen of several things at once, / as concern as they own me more than myself.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ariel Francisco
Ariel Francisco discusses his new poetry collection, A SINKING SHIP IS STILL A SHIP.
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A Tightrope Act: Frozen Charlotte by Susan de Sola
It’s de Sola’s genuineness in portraying this tightrope act that is Frozen Charlotte’s chief virtue.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jennifer Givhan
They are headless. As I am too often / headless. As women are wont to be.
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Frenetic, Excitable, and Direct: Sylvie Baumgartel’s Song of Songs
This poem lets her—the speaker and Baumgartel—be too much.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Keegan Lester
The maple on the grounds of the church grew sick / years ago.
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Everything Is Alive: Dunce by Mary Ruefle
Ruefle’s memories are as alive as the bodies holding them.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Amy Gong Liu
my teeth / taste like glue. my // teeth taste like sun.
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Poetry as Archeology: Talking with Roy G. Guzmán
Roy G. Guzmán discusses their debut collection, CATRACHOS.
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On Loss of Land and Loss of Girlhood: Taneum Bambrick’s Vantage
Girlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
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National Poetry Month Day 30: Oliver Baez Bendorf
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #215: Traci Brimhall
“Everything in my life is basically a scribble.”
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National Poetry Month Day 29: Alison C. Rollins
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 28: Kathleen Ossip
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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