A Divine Comedy of Experience: Hannah Ensor’s Love Dream with Television
Art is a fickle running buddy, legacy jumps out unexpectedly, and love is too serious not to joke about.
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Poetry
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Frank Johnson
i run out of words for God & i can’t speak to my demons but / i hear them
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Exploration and Connection: A Conversation with Oliver de la Paz
Oliver de la Paz discusses his newest collection, THE BOY IN THE LABYRINTH.
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A Kind of Bliss: Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman
In these moments, we are there with her, to witness the work of staying sane.
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Where Speech Fails Us: Talking with Martin Jude Farawell
Poet Martin Jude Farawell discusses his debut full-length collection, ODD BOY.
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Barbara Berman’s 2019 Holiday Poetry Shout-Out
Barbara Berman’s 2019 Poetry Shout-Out!
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Bronwen Tate
A little bite dissolves. It’s a beginning, / bait.
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Praise the Bottom: A Conversation with Malcolm Tariq
Malcolm Tariq discusses his debut poetry collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
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Propelled by Questions: Animal by Dorothea Lasky
The animal spirit of poetry brings us closer to our own humanity.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #201: Brian Alan Ellis
“Loneliness is a way of life, man… like punk!”
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Bettina Judd
dive— / your back a black sight.
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Deep, Wide, and Ridiculous: Talking with Diane Seuss
Diane Seuss discusses her most recent collection, STILL LIFE WITH TWO DEAD PEACOCKS AND A GIRL.
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Why I Chose Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers’s The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Millissa Kingbird
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Malcolm Tariq
Malcolm Tariq discusses his debut collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Jess Rizkallah
once, / stones in a pocket didn’t mean walking into the sea.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Tyler Dettloff
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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A Metaphysical Inquiry: Nick Laird’s Feel Free
The work maintains a wondering backward, as it were, tracing the varied details of lived experience.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Dante Di Stefano
What’s a bright moment to a blind man?
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Translating Desire: The Erotic-Macabre Poetry of Joyce Mansour
…women’s writing has often been deemed too dark, too sultry, too frigid, too hysterical.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Clarissa Mendiola
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Between Sex and Death: Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets
Survival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
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Beyond the Manicured Surfaces: Talking with Aaron Smith
Aaron Smith discusses his new poetry collection, THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Chelsea Dingman
Hopelessness is a marriage of light / & dark.
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How Patterns Break: Talking with Linda Bierds
Poet Linda Bierds discusses her newest collection, THE HARDY TREE.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Killa Ch’aska
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Turning and Turning: Jericho Brown’s The Tradition
[T]his is a book in direct conversation with literary tradition.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Quenton Baker
i write the field open / while buried beneath it
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Otherwordly: Talking with Rosebud Ben-Oni
Rosebud Ben-Oni discusses her new collection, TURN AROUND, BRXGHT XYXS.
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Why I Chose Danez Smith’s Homie for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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