In Episode 10 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, poet Nicky Beer chats about her new collection, The Octopus Game, turning subject matter into art, and how we're all just shape-shifting actors trying to get through the day.
I’d propose that we learn better ways of speaking up for and protecting that space, that valley; that we prescribe uselessness as a core nutrient, one we’d surely wilt without. That we write with very fierce love.
Patrick James Dunagan reviews The Heart is Strange: New Selected Poems by John Berryman and John Berryman's Public Vision: Relocating the Scene of Disorder by Philip Coleman today in Rumpus Poetry.