Poetry
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Who Pays Writers? We Asked the Editors
In the free preview edition of the new online journal Scratch, which we posted about here, web editors discussed their jobs and paying writers.
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Recalculating by Charles Bernstein
Sean Singer reviews Charles Bernstein’s Recalculating today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: News of the Weird in Poetryland
New book reports postmodernists forced to write in rhyme and meter Exposing widespread abuses faced by beginning poets writing in postmodern verses, a new book titled “Between the Lines,” revealed that poets who write post-experimental poetry are forced by their…
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Rare Footage of O’Hara, Ginsberg, Baraka Emerges
Yesterday, avant-garde cinema legend Jonas Mekas posted remarkable archival footage of Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’hara, Amiri Baraka (who still went by Leroi Jones), and Ray Bremser reading together in 1959. The reading, which took place at the Living Theater in…
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Eliot’s “Prufrock” Gets Comic Book Makeover
Let us go then, you and I… Montreal illustrator Julian Peters has just released the first nine-pages of his comic-book adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s classic poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” The poem, one of the canonical works…
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Dear Beast Loveliness: Poems of the Body by Tim J. Myers
Damon Marbut reviews Tim J. Myers’s Dear Beast Loveliness: Poems of the Body today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Nostalgia for the Criminal Past by Kathleen Winter
Josh Cook reviews Kathleen Winters’s Nostalgia for the Criminal Past today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The November Rumpus Book Club Roundup
Most of the time at the Rumpus Book Clubs we get books 3-4 weeks before everyone else does. It’s one of the best reasons to join, along with the opportunity to chat online with group members and with the author…
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“This Is Just To Say I’m a Zombie” by David Hernandez
Happy Halloween from Rumpus Poetry, where we’re pleased to offer you this take on William Carlos Williams’s “This is just to say” by David Hernandez.
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30 Poems in 30 Days Inspired By Works in the 30 Americans Art Exhibit
Innovative poet, Stephanie Pruitt, kicked off her 30x30x30 project which will result in “30 poems written by Stephanie Pruitt in 30 days inspired by works in the 30 Americans art exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Nashville,…
