Smugglers by Ales Debeljak
Damon Marbut reviews Ales Debeljak's Smugglers translated by Bryan Henry today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Application for Release from the Dream by Tony Hoagland
Ellen F. Brown reviews Tony Hoagland's Application for Release from the Dream today in Rumpus Poetry.
An Interview with Ross Gay
Kaveh Akbar’s interview with author Ross Gay is delightfully honest. Gay, who is an author of three books: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, and, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, invites us into his world by…
Alliance and Condemnation by Claudio Rodriguez
Barbara Berman reviews Claudio Rodriguez's Alliance and Condemnation, translated by Philip Silver, today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Reginald Dwayne Betts
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new book Bastards of the Reagan Era.
I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems by Eileen Myles
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Eileen Myles's I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
Sometimes English Needs to be Broken
Nationally touring poet, performer, and writer Fatimah Asghar is “almost always in-between two places.” Her parents were born in Kashmir and Pakistan. They moved to the US, and died when…
Errata by Lisa Fay Coutley
Allison Donohue reviews Lisa Fay Coutley's Errata today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Old Friends Or Lovers
I was becoming awed by the wide horizon of the speech that arose out of an individual life lived in a single era and generation. I was becoming attracted to the writer’s creativity.
A Small Story About the Sky by Alberto Rios
Jeff Lennon reviews Alberto Rios's A Small Story About the Sky today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Ruined Elegance by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Christina Cook reviews Fiona Sze-Lorrain's The Ruined Elegance today in Rumpus Poetry.
What Eyes Does Your Poem Have?
And this is how poetry derives its power, its agency, by the ways it can direct the eye. But the poet has a different toolkit from a visual artist. The world of a poem builds incrementally: it grows, it accretes.
