Poetry
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X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess
Rebecca Hazelton reviews X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Render / An Apocalypse by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Roberto Carlos Garcia reviews Rebecca Gayle Howell’s Render: An Apocalypse today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Request to the Poetry Foundation
As I hope you already know, lots of writers live in less than ideal economic circumstances. Many are self-employed or under-employed, and even with the PPACA (also known as Obamacare) set to go into effect in January, there are still…
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The Silence of Doorways by Sharon Venezio
Lisa Cheby reviews Sharon Venezio’s The Silence of Doorways today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil
Diego Báez reviews Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Poetry Shutdown Begins – Poets and Critics Fail to Agree
A flurry of last-minute phone calls, philippics, tweets, and Facebook posts by poets and critics late last night failed to break a bitter standoff over the latest poetry-is-dead attacks, setting in motion the first poetry shutdown in the history of…
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Life Cycle by Dena Rash Guzman
Ryan Werner reviews Dena Rash Guzman’s Life Cycle today in Rumpus 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.