Where were you when the world broke?
Not in your echoing womb, to scream at you across your fields to wake up, not part of your denial that Earth is burning, dehydrated, suffocating on itself— I stood…
Poetry
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Hemming Flames by Patricia Colleen Murphy
Sarah Pape reviews Patricia Colleen Murphy's Hemming Flames today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat for Max Ritvo
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kaveh Akbar, Shon Arieh-Lerer, Justin Boening, Sarah Blake, and Ariella Ritvo-Slifka about Max Ritvo's Four Reincarnations. Max Ritvo died on August 23, 2016.
Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
Eric Farwell reviews Max Ritvo's Four Reincarnations today in Rumpus Poetry.
Saturday Rumpus Poetry: Three Poems by Connie Voisine
Strewn is a finger in the soil, the seed / pressed through, too deep, anxious and why.
Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Four Poems by Ladan Osman
I want to walk into a field at night, close our eyes and mouths / so the searchlights can’t find us.
Swinging Modern Sounds #76: American Songbag
In the broadest sense, I think of this work as being about the stuff of life: excitement, love, disappointment, pride, nature, cities, war, loneliness, work, class distinction, communication.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 4): “Roosters”
the roosters brace their cruel feet and glare // with stupid eyes / while from their beaks there rise / the uncontrolled, traditional cries.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Janice N. Harrington
Janice N. Harrington on her new collection Primitive and critiquing the use of "primitive" to describe African American folk art.
The Rumpus Interview with Max Porter
Max Porter discusses his debut novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, literary genres, and the changing roles of editors.