Poetry
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Instructions For Preparing Your Skin by Ariana Nadia Nash
Diego Báez reviews Ariana Nadia Nash’s Instructions for Preparing Your Skin today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rose of January by Geoffrey Nutter
Kent Shaw reviews Geoffrey Nutter’s The Rose of January today in Rumpus Poetry.
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i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together by Mira Gonzalez
Emily Bludworth de Barrios reviews mira gonzales’s i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together today in Rumpus Poetry.
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the body | of space | in the shape of the human by Andrew Allport
David Peak reviews Andrew Allport’s the body | of space | in the shape of the human today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Ganymede,” by Michael D. Snediker
Sometimes, it’s easy to think of the poem as a conversation one might have in a bar. And sometimes, to follow the metaphor through, the poem is a surprising conversation, at once sweet and sexy and utterly—thank god—smart. So when…
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The Opposite of Work by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Charles Kruger reviews Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s The Opposite of Work today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Book of Poems I Loved: Blood Sugar by Nicole Blackman
It’s fitting that Nicole Blackman leads into the poems of Blood Sugar with a quote from the confessional poet W.D. Snodgrass: “I am going to show you something very ugly. One day it may save your life.” The chief construct…
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Odessa by Patricia Kirkpatrick
Jim Zukowski reviews Patricia Kirkpatrick’s Odessa today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Bully Pulpit by Kim Bridgford
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kim Bridgford’s Bully Pulpit today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Litany for the City by Ryan Teitman
Michelle Salcido reviews Ryan Teitman’s Litany for the City today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Striven, the Bright Treatise by Jeffrey Pethybridge
Jody Smiling reviews Jeffrey Pethybridge’s Striven, the Bright Treatise today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Cynicism of Mark Edmundson, Or Poetry Is Still Not Dead
Mark Edmundson’s take down of contemporary American poetry, “Poetry Slam,” (currently behind the paywall) in this month’s issue of Harper’s, is not so bad really. He’s right about the insularity of the American poetic idiom, the stranglehold of deconstructive theory…