Poetry
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The Ruined Elegance by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Christina Cook reviews Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s The Ruined Elegance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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What Eyes Does Your Poem Have?
And this is how poetry derives its power, its agency, by the ways it can direct the eye. But the poet has a different toolkit from a visual artist. The world of a poem builds incrementally: it grows, it accretes.
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What’s Coming Up for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club is finishing up this month’s book, Reginald Dwayne Betts’s incredible Bastards of the Reagan Era, and getting ready for our online chat with the author (my favorite part of the Rumpus Book Club experience), but I thought it…
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The Gods Are Dead by Joanna C. Valente
Anthony Cappo reviews Joanna C. Valente’s The Gods Are Dead today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Rick Barot
In Episode 13 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Rick Barot discusses his newest collection, Chord, tone in poetry, and the selfies Bishop might’ve posted.
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On Getting Over Your Fear of Poetry
For some, poetry can seem out of reach. It’s like a different language. I don’t understand poetry very well, and I have to re-read everything several times before I even begin to understand it. Jacqueline Woodson’s “Lift Every Voice” at the Poetry…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Thorpe Moeckel
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Thorpe Moeckel about his new book Arcadia Road, the challenge of writing long poems, raising twins, and camo thongs.
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Valley Fever by Julia Bloch
Becky Peterson reviews Julia Bloch’s Valley Fever today in Rumpus Poetry.
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That Winter the Wolf Came by Juliana Spahr
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Juliana Spahr’s That Winter the Wolf Came today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Karankawa by Iliana Rocha
Rigoberto González reviews Iliana Rocha’s Karankawa today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Pretending to Pretend
Just as a body, like water, retains no constant shape, so in memory there are no constant conditions.
