The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kimberly Grey
Kimberly Grey discusses her new collection, SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING.
...moreKimberly Grey discusses her new collection, SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreRumpus editors share share new and forthcoming collections we’re especially excited about!
...moreLaura Bogart shares a reading list to celebrate DON’T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.
...moreGayle Brandeis shares a reading list to celebrate MANY RESTLESS CONCERNS.
...more“Working with words is a quest, not blind, but in the darkness.”
...moreIf nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
...morePoet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo discusses his debut memoir, CHILDREN OF THE LAND.
...moreArt is a fickle running buddy, legacy jumps out unexpectedly, and love is too serious not to joke about.
...moreHeather Christle shares a reading list to celebrate THE CRYING BOOK.
...moreI remember driving a bird mad once.
...moreRumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month!
...moreLiterary events in and around Philly this week!
...moreAllie Rowbottom discusses her debut memoir, JELL-O GIRLS.
...moreWe here at The Rumpus matriarchy are celebrating all of our feminist “mothers” this Mother’s Day!
...moreRumaan Alam discusses his new novel, That Kind of Mother, the limits of the employer-employee relationship, and the grossness of heterosexual sex.
...moreTessa Fontaine shares a list of books to celebrate her forthcoming debut memoir, The Electric Woman.
...moreKiki Petrosino discusses her newest collection, Witch Wife, the career she’d have in an alternate universe, and the relationship between reading and writing.
...moreRumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month!
...moreA list from Julia Pierpont to celebrate the release of The Little Book of Feminist Saints.
...moreAurvi Sharma discusses her memoir-in-progress, finding inspiration in ancient women’s voices, and writing against erasure.
...moreRumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family, from recent 2017 releases to longtime literary loves.
...moreRumpus editors share our Nobel Prize in Literature predictions with you!
...moreBorn in Michigan but currently based in Berlin, Germany, Laurel Halo is one of the most compelling electronic producers around. Halo’s third album, Dust, is out now from Hyperdub, and is breaking all preconceptions about women in electronic music. Mixing experimental beats, synth pop, and abstract sounds, with techno hints that peek out in her live sets, the classical […]
...moreOur American obsession with the personal and individual has made us the tremendous resource consumers we are in the world.
...moreThe woman whose face appears on the Czech five-hundred koruna doesn’t appear there without consequence. During the late 19th century, politically active Božena Němcová was an innovator of Czech literature. Twenty-first century writer Kelcey Parker Ervick continues Němcová’s legacy in her own fairy tale-like work: a biographical collage, The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová. Comprised […]
...moreIf prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it. Kate Kellaway interviews poet Anne Carson for the Guardian, touching on reliability, Oscar Wilde, and passing phases like boxing. Carson’s newest collection, Float, is now available, and she has just appeared in the newly launched Penguin Modern Poets Series.
...moreIt’s hard to believe that it’s been three years since Lou Reed’s passing. In remembrance of his work and legacy, Laurie Anderson organized a day-long tribute to her late husband on Saturday, with readings, exhibitions, film screenings, and concerts. Readers of Reed’s lyrics included Steve Buscemi, Anne Carson, Willem Dafoe, A.M. Homes, and Natasha Lyonne. Performers included Anohni, Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), David Johansen (New York […]
...moreIris Dunkle reviews Anne Carson’s recently reissued Short Talks today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreJohn D’Agata, visionary champion of the essay and master anthologizer, sees the lyric form “partake of the poem in its density and shapeliness, it’s distillation of ideas and musicality of language.” He also sees it as unbound to conventional notions of truth. Writing for Harper’s, Elaine Blair critiques the genre-bending, exploratory practices of writers like David Shields, […]
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