Poetry
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Michael Bazzett
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Michael Bazzett about his new book, You Must Remember This, the malleability of memory, and humor in poetry.
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The New Testament by Jericho Brown
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Jericho Brown’s The New Testament today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Apocryphal by Lisa Marie Basile
Julie Marie Wade reviews Lisa Marie Basile’s Apocryphal today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Let me tell you” by Miller Williams
They don’t usually realize that every line, every word of a poem, is there because the poet consciously chose that word instead of some other one.
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Wunderkammer by Cynthia Cruz
Diana Whitney reviews Cynthia Cruz’s Wunderkammer today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Instructions for Killing a Revenant
If it’s blanched and fat with fluid/drop your pick and puncture it.
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How to Dance as the Roof Caves In by Nick Lantz
Christian Anton Gerard reviews Nick Lantz’s How to Dance as the Room Caves In today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood
Kent Shaw reviews Patricia Lockwood’s Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Why I Chose Michael Bazzett’s You Must Remember This
Camille Dungy discusses why she selected Michael Bazzett’s forthcoming You Must Remember This for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
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Heaven and Other Poems by Israel Horovitz
Lois Bassen reviews Israel Horovitz’s Heaven and Other Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Alex Dimitrov and Kate Durbin
Alex Dimitrov and Kate Durbin interview each other about place and poetics and poetry in performance, as well as poetry in LA and New York, and using culture as a prop.
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The Poetry Deal by Diane di Prima
Barbara Berman reviews Diane di Prima’s The Poetry Deal today in Rumpus Poetry.