Search For a Velvet-Lined Cape by Marjorie Manwaring
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Marjorie Manwaring's Search for a Velvet-Lined Cape today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Beauty and the Beastly Po-Biz, Part 2
You can read Part 1 here. Speaking of clothes, one standout opportunity for the heralded “blockage” or disruption of capital that seems to have been missed occurred at the site…
Beauty and the Beastly Po-Biz, Part 1
We can’t see the forest for the trees. Think high school cliques. Think think tanks that figure “us” out for us. In their equations, you’re either obedient, an adherent, or…
Reveal: All Shapes and Sizes by Bruce Covey
Andrew Field reviews Bruce Covey's Reveal: All Shapes and Sizes today in Rumpus Poetry.
Instructions For Preparing Your Skin by Ariana Nadia Nash
Diego Báez reviews Ariana Nadia Nash's Instructions for Preparing Your Skin today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rose of January by Geoffrey Nutter
Kent Shaw reviews Geoffrey Nutter's The Rose of January today in Rumpus Poetry.
i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together by Mira Gonzalez
Emily Bludworth de Barrios reviews mira gonzales's i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together today in Rumpus Poetry.
the body | of space | in the shape of the human by Andrew Allport
David Peak reviews Andrew Allport's the body | of space | in the shape of the human today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Last Poem I Loved: “Ganymede,” by Michael D. Snediker
Sometimes, it’s easy to think of the poem as a conversation one might have in a bar. And sometimes, to follow the metaphor through, the poem is a surprising conversation,…
The Opposite of Work by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Charles Kruger reviews Hugh Behm-Steinberg's The Opposite of Work today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Last Book of Poems I Loved: Blood Sugar by Nicole Blackman
It’s fitting that Nicole Blackman leads into the poems of Blood Sugar with a quote from the confessional poet W.D. Snodgrass: “I am going to show you something very ugly.…
Odessa by Patricia Kirkpatrick
Jim Zukowski reviews Patricia Kirkpatrick's Odessa today in Rumpus Poetry.