Rumpus Original
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Cornerstones of American Poetry
The only way I can put it is, no American poet I have ever met regardless of disposition or poetics has disliked Frank Stanford’s poems.
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On Pain
There is pain in the Kentucky mountains. Some people’s bodies throb with the ache of repetitive injuries. I am here, they yell to a cloudless sky. Look at me. I am hurting. I am in pain.
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The Rumpus Interview with Banning Eyre
Producer, senior editor, Afropop expert, and author Banning Eyre talks about his new book, Lion Songs, a 15-years-in-the-making biography of Zimbabwe’s legendary musician Thomas Mapfumo.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jill Talbot
The author of The Way We Weren’t talks about why she decided to write about being a single mother, the effect it’s had on her daughter, and the adjunct crisis.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in the Subjunctive
Perhaps the city looked more poignantly lovely because I was conscious of its tragic history.
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The Lonely Voice #31: So Long, James Salter
But our bodies and our brains don’t seem designed, ultimately, to cooperate and Salter joins the ranks of the dead where he doesn’t belong.
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The Rumpus Interview with Neil Smith
Author Neil Smith discusses his latest book, Boo, the suffering inherent in being thirteen years old, and how friendship can help pull us through traumatic events in our lives.
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Make/Work Episode 33: Daniel Baird and Alex Chitty
In episode 33 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with artists Daniel G. Baird and Alex Chitty.
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Accidents
Experience is the name people give to their mistakes, said Oscar Wilde. But I don’t think he thought he made a lot of mistakes.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lori Rader-Day
Lori Rader-Day discusses her second novel, Little Pretty Things, the “five lost years” when she didn’t write at all, and her favorite deep-dish pizza.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Rigoberto González
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Rigoberto González about his new book Our Lady of the Crossword, cover image censorship, and the BP oil disaster.
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Albums of Our Lives: Les Savy Fav’s Go Forth
It’s one of those records I’ve glued to a pedestal, like people do with torrid weekend affairs or their favorite dish at Denny’s.