National Poetry Month Day 2: “To Mercury, In Retrograde” by Randall Mann
To Mercury, In Retrograde This ointment isn’t helping. This clinic isn’t free. The nurse’s favorite movie is Penitentiary III.
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National Poetry Month Day 1: “To Find Stars In Another Language” by Elizabeth Bradfield
Elizabeth Bradfield wrote the first poem we published here on The Rumpus, so I’m pleased to have her kick off this year’s National Poetry Month project. Elizabeth’s poem is more…
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2013
This is the 5th(!) year that The Rumpus has done a National Poetry Month project, wherein we run a new, previously unpublished poem each day of the month (and sometimes…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Republican House Set to Banish Poets from America
“The subcommittee's bill breaks the promise that this country has made to poets”
The Right Place to Jump by Peter Covino
Marisa Siegel reviews Peter Covino's The Right Place to Jump today in Rumpus Poetry.
This is Not About Birds by Nick Ripatrazone
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Nick Ripatrazone's This is Not About Birds today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl meets Gay Marriage
Yesterday was the 56th anniversary of the day that U.S. customs agents seized some 500 copies of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl on the grounds of obscenity. Yesterday and today, the Supreme…
City of Rivers by Zubair Ahmed
Tory Adkisson reviews Zubair Ahmed's City of Rivers today in Rumpus Poetry.
Looking for The Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco
Julie Marie Wade reviews Richard Blanco's Looking For the Gulf Motel today in Rumpus Poetry.
It Becomes You by Dobby Gibson
Jeff Alessandrelli reviews Dobby Gibson's It Becomes You today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Identity v. Identification
T. R. Hummer has a comely piece up on Slate, “The Intimacy of Walt Whitman’s ‘America,'” about the influence and pleasures of Walt Whitman, plus an alleged recording of Whitman…
The Glimmering Room by Cynthia Cruz
Julie Brooks Barbour reviews Cynthia Cruz's The Glimmering Room today in Rumpus Poetry.