National Poetry Month Day 5: “Innocence: A Memoir” by Kathleen Ossip
Innocence: A Memoir All souls grow roughly, out of careless errors. This month brings two things: the moon and you, both at my breasts.
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National Poetry Month Day 4: “Both/Both” by Oliver Bendorf
BOTH/BOTH “We were just kids.” –Patti Smith I’m asking if she wants dumbbells on the top or sort of smack down
National Poetry Month Day 2: “Pending Approval for Suicide Barriers on the Golden Gate Bridge, Questions for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors” by D. Gilson
Pending Approval for Suicide Barriers on the Golden Gate Bridge, Questions for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Chairman, can you update us on fog? Chairman, how many nets can…
National Poetry Month Day 1: “To Proceed, You Must First Understand” by Barbara Jane Reyes
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2015! For the last six years, we here at The Rumpus have run a new poem every day in April (and often into May) to…
Habitation: Collected Poems by Sam Hamill
Linda Ashok reviews Sam Hamill's Habitation today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: A Defense of Conceptual Poetry
My friends, I'm deeply humbled by the opportunity to speak before the most important poetic body in the world, the Internet.
Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems 1970-2014 by Don McKay
Jim Johnstone reviews Don McKay's Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems 1970-2014 today in Rumpus Poetry.
Animalities by David Dodd Lee
Jessica Guzman Alderman reviews David Dodd Lee's Animalities today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Do-Over by Kathleen Ossip
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kathleen Ossip's The Do-Over today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Paul Vangelisti
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Paul Vangelisti about Amiri Baraka's S O S Poems 1961-2013, as well as Baraka's place among American writers and the ways in which his poetry and politics intersected and collided.
Barely Composed by Alice Fulton
Casey Patrick reviews Alice Fulton's Barely Composed today in Rumpus Poetry.