I Hear the Place That Can’t Be Named
It is remembering and loving anyway—not forgetting—that binds us even if the recollections are absurd, undignified, cruel, or humiliating.
Poetry
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Prodigal, New and Selected Poems: 1976-2014 by Linda Gregerson
Ann van Buren reviews Linda Gregerson's Prodigal, New and Selected Poems: 1976-2014 today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Be Wise, Drink the Wine
Be it Latin or poetry, or whatever it was—I was feeling woozy by then. If I couldn’t love what I was reading, I took it, it was better to have never read at all.
We Who Saw Everything by Whit Griffin
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Whit Griffin's We Who Saw Everything today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Amazing Disappearing Woman Writer
To refuse to disappear at mid-life—I am forty-two as of the writing of this essay—is perhaps the best rebellion a woman poet can make to the literary world and to the world at large.
The Animal Too Big To Kill by Shane McCrae
Rigoberto González reviews Shane McCrae's The Animal Too Big to Kill today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Phillip B. Williams
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Phillip B. Williams about his new book Thief in the Interior, form in poetry, and balancing editing work with one's own.
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
Brian McKenna reviews John Burnside's Black Cat Bone today in Rumpus Poetry.
Illocality by Joseph Massey
Ann van Buren reviews Joseph Massey's Illocality today in Rumpus Poetry.
In Plain Sight: The Vanishing of Ellen Bass
Putting her experiences into a broader context, [Bass] now saw, was essential to “creating openings for readers to enter her poems and for the poems to enter her readers.”
