Reading Dante by Prue Shaw and The Divine Comedy Translated by Clive James
Barbara Berman reviews Prue Shaw's Reading Dante From Here to Eternity and Clive James's translation of The Divine Comedy today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Darkened Rooms of Summer by Jared Carter
James Crews reviews Jared Carter's Darkened Rooms of Summer today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 6
As a poet you are called to be absorbed and aroused and enchanted and intoxicated and beguiled. You embrace occasions that leave you seduced and transfixed, overpowered and enraptured.
Interrobang by Jessica Piazza
Melissa-Leigh Gore reviews Jessica Piazza's Interrobang today in Rumpus Poetry.
When I Was Straight by Julie Marie Wade
Julie Enszer reviews Julie Marie Wade's When I Was Straight today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Last Book of Poems I Loved: Sleeping With the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
No one writes poems like [Harryette] Mullen. And if Mullen’s poems teach us anything about the larger context of making poems, the lesson might be that no one should write poems like her.
American Chew by Matthew Lippman
Michael Klein reviews Matthew Lippman's American Chew today in Rumpus Poetry.
In the Low Houses by Heather Dobbins
Caitlin Mackenzie reviews Heather Dobbins's In the Low Houses today in Rumpus Poetry.
Sun Bear by Matthew Zapruder
Kent Shaw reviews Matthew Zapruder's Sun Bear today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 5
There's a unitary circulation between poet and reader. The poet dwells in the gap between dream and waking, and the reader is offered entryway to become alive and enlivened.
The Pedestrians by Rachel Zucker
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Rachel Zucker's the pedestrians today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Feel Trio by Fred Moten
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Fred Moten's The Feel Trio today in Rumpus Poetry.