He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs by Leonard Gontarek
A. V. Christie reviews Leonard Gontarek's He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs today in Rumpus Poetry.
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X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess
Rebecca Hazelton reviews X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess today in Rumpus Poetry.
Render / An Apocalypse by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Roberto Carlos Garcia reviews Rebecca Gayle Howell's Render: An Apocalypse today in Rumpus Poetry.
A Request to the Poetry Foundation
As I hope you already know, lots of writers live in less than ideal economic circumstances. Many are self-employed or under-employed, and even with the PPACA (also known as Obamacare)…
The Silence of Doorways by Sharon Venezio
Lisa Cheby reviews Sharon Venezio's The Silence of Doorways today in Rumpus Poetry.
Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil
Diego Báez reviews Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Poetry Shutdown Begins – Poets and Critics Fail to Agree
A flurry of last-minute phone calls, philippics, tweets, and Facebook posts by poets and critics late last night failed to break a bitter standoff over the latest poetry-is-dead attacks, setting…
Life Cycle by Dena Rash Guzman
Ryan Werner reviews Dena Rash Guzman's Life Cycle today in Rumpus Poetry.
Let’s Read About Sex
The New York Times asked novelists, memoirists, and poets for their thoughts on writing and reading about sex.
Palimpsest by Kristina Marie Darling
Anne Champion reviews Kristina Marie Darling's Palimpsest today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 10 Burdens for American Poetry
As with the myth of America, America’s poets believe a poem should go from rags to riches. And yet, why so much surprise when it actually happens? There is more…
‘Why Can’t Poets Write Poems as Good as a Jay-Z Song?’: Posthumanism and Poetry
This month’s blogger on the Poetry Foundations’s blog, Tyrone Williams, shares his thoughts on post-humanism as it relates to technology’s effects on students and readers of poetry. He writes: