Poetry
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Let’s Read About Sex
The New York Times asked novelists, memoirists, and poets for their thoughts on writing and reading about sex.
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Palimpsest by Kristina Marie Darling
Anne Champion reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Palimpsest today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 10 Burdens for American Poetry
As with the myth of America, America’s poets believe a poem should go from rags to riches. And yet, why so much surprise when it actually happens? There is more to American poetry than its genial and hospitable prairie lands.…
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‘Why Can’t Poets Write Poems as Good as a Jay-Z Song?’: Posthumanism and Poetry
This month’s blogger on the Poetry Foundations’s blog, Tyrone Williams, shares his thoughts on post-humanism as it relates to technology’s effects on students and readers of poetry. He writes:
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Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene
Barbara Berman reviews Dana Greene’s Denise Levertov: A Poet’s LIfe today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Brenda Hillman
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Brenda Hillman about trance work, glintings, and radical animism in Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the last in a tetralogy of books about the four elements.
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We Come Elemental by Tamiko Beyer
Sean Singer reviews Tamiko Beyer’s We Come Elemental today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Declarable Future by Jennifer Boyden
Marisa Siegel reviews Jennifer Boyden’s The Declarable Future today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Soul in Space by Noelle Kocot
Diego Báez reviews Noelle Kocot’s Soul in Space today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Reading My Hate Mail
Every since I wrote this weekend with the news that I’m stepping down, after 11 years, as a columnist on poetry for my local paper, I’ve received some very nice farewells. I mean, very nice. One woman wrote me to…
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No Crying in the Barbershop: A Conversation with Lisa Russ-Spaar and Zayne Turner
Her Kind, a literary community powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts chose hair as its September theme. Lisa Russ-Spaar and Zayne Turner’s conversation on the site responded to the question “Why do we care so much about hair?”
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A Symposium on Revenge
The Threepenny Review’s Fall 2013 issue includes a section called “A Symposium on Revenge” with selections by Geoff Dyer, Robert Pinsky, James Lasdun, Adam Phillips, and Louise Glück. Threepenny, so lovingly, made Glück’s essay available online