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 of capitalism’s convergence: the White House. Kenneth Goldsmith was invited…
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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 expendable / inconsequential. You’re in or you’re out. With us…
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Reveal: All Shapes and Sizes by Bruce Covey
Andrew Field reviews Bruce Covey’s Reveal: All Shapes and Sizes today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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.
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The Rose of January by Geoffrey Nutter
Kent Shaw reviews Geoffrey Nutter’s The Rose of January today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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.
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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.
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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, at once sweet and sexy and utterly—thank god—smart. So when…
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The Opposite of Work by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Charles Kruger reviews Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s The Opposite of Work today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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. One day it may save your life.” The chief construct…
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Odessa by Patricia Kirkpatrick
Jim Zukowski reviews Patricia Kirkpatrick’s Odessa today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Bully Pulpit by Kim Bridgford
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kim Bridgford’s Bully Pulpit today in Rumpus Poetry.