Poetry
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Shock by Shock by Dean Young
Diane K Martin reviews Dean Young’s Shock by Shock today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat With Camille Rankine
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Camille Rankine about her new book Incorrect Merciful Impulses, history, and trying to be a writer every day.
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Do Not Rise by Beth Bachmann
Keegan Finberg reviews Beth Bachmann’s Do Not Rise today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Opposite of People By Patrick Ryan Frank
Brian McKenna reviews Patrick Ryan Frank’s The Opposite of People today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Nighthawks
We live in a moment, we have an experience, and we demand to understand what is happening.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We Who Saw Everything by Whit Griffin
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Whit Griffin’s We Who Saw Everything today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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.
