The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Get Rejected
In this excerpt from her new book How Not to Write, Lisa Carver explains why it's good to get rejected.
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Rumpus Poetry: When at a Certain Party in NYC
Wherever you’re from sucks,/and wherever you grew up sucks,/and everyone here lives in a converted/chocolate factory or deconsecrated church
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite
Even now, writing in Manhattan, my heart beats faster recalling that initial meeting. Oddly enough, the first word that came to my mind was beauty.
Jane Byrne (1934–2014)
Jane Byrne, Fighting Jane. Mike Royko called her Mayor Bossy. She ran against the machine and squashed it, the whole goddamned machine.
First In Line at the Peepshow
They both chose the same small dark-haired woman to watch, and, so as not to seem overly eager or perverse, they also both insisted that the other go first.
Dear Empire;
Dear Empire, we are an obedient people. We are intimate beyond death, and anxious for your return.
Pedestrian
this poem’s possibly timely / not likely timeless which someone once said / separates poetry from the pedestrian
Ars Poetica: Fuchsia
The music of free verse is easier / than the music of the sonnet. Which is why / I have avoided sonnets...
The Rumpus Interview with Corinne Goria
Author and veteran Voice of Witness editor Peter Orner sits down with Invisible Hands: Voices From the Global Economy editor Corinne Goria to talk about putting the book together, economic interdependency, and the complex human stories behind everyday items.
How To Travel Alone
Some days I come out wrinkled like a jacket / exhumed from a suitcase. Some days / I’m as constant as the last soggy corn flake / at the bottom of a bowl of milk, / that piece that keeps giving...