Complicating Narratives: A Conversation with Bushra Rehman
Bushra Rehman discusses her new poetry collection, MARIANNA'S BEAUTY SALON.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kyle Dargan
Kyle Dargan discusses his new collection, ANAGNORISIS.
Personal to Universal: Robin Becker’s The Black Bear Inside Me
Becker stands firmly on the shoulder of earlier lesbian-feminist poets while inhabiting and describing our current era of new challenges and old shibboleths.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Andrés Cerpa
I have stood above the labyrinth / & touched what is not there
Honest Work with Language: Talking with Berta García Faet
Berta García Faet talks with her translator about THE ELIGIBLE AGE.
New-Old, Old-New: Erica Dawson’s When Rap Spoke Straight to God
Dawson plays with many tropes—light and dark, the spiritual vs. the corporeal—while questioning the everyday myths that surround us.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Whitman Notebook: Summer Grass
Whatever is undiscovered in “Song of Myself” is in the soil.
Making a Nest within a Book: Kevin McLellan’s Ornitheology
In my reading, Ornitheology turns out to be a book of psalms.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joy Priest
Whole ecosystems, / the country’s fauna, built through / our long blood.
Above All, Time: A Conversation with Beth Bachmann
Poet Beth Bachmann discusses her new collection, CEASE.
Hard-Earned, Essential Grace: Anaphora by Kevin Goodan
No elegy is an island and this elegy is no exception.
We Are Natural Creatures: Talking with Karen Solie
“At the limit of language we meet our mortality.”