Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Steven Espada Dawson, Elisa Gonzalez, and Gaia Rajan.
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Posts Tagged: Brenda Shaughnessy
The Hope of Time: Talking with Judith H. Montgomery
Judith H. Montgomery discusses her latest poetry collection, MERCY.
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2020
A selection of AWP 2020 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Notable Chicago: 1/24–1/30
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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A Divine Comedy of Experience: Hannah Ensor’s Love Dream with Television
Art is a fickle running buddy, legacy jumps out unexpectedly, and love is too serious not to joke about.
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Notable NYC: 8/31–9/6
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 4/27–5/3
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Franny Choi
Franny Choi discusses her new collection, SOFT SCIENCE.
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Notable NYC: 4/20–4/26
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 4/6–4/12
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 2/16–2/22
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Moments within Days within Seasons: Talking with Alicia Mountain
Alicia Mountain discusses her debut collection, High Ground Coward, the surveillance state, and queer representation in the poetry world.
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What to Read When You Want to Write Like a Mother
A list of books that wrangle, directly or indirectly, with motherhood and all that comes with it (or its absence).
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: No Wound
Maybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.
...moreFear and Loathing
For Lambda Literary, Christopher Soto talks with Brenda Shaughnessy about her new collection of poetry and how she relates to her writing as someone who is already four collections in. She outlines the ways in which her work has been shaped by embarrassment, her experiences within the queer community, and the importance of a writer […]
...moreOrdinary Days of Grandeur
Don’t miss the weekly staff picks over at the Paris Review. Lorin Stein recommends Brenda Shaughnessy’s soulful and stripped down So Much Synth, Jeffery Gleaves praises “mother writer” Rivka Galchen’s Little Labors, and Caitlin Youngquist writes of Bernadette Mayer’s Works and Days, “Hardly any of Mayer’s days are spectacular, but her eye is so keenly […]
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My Sister’s Legs
Because that’s how it is with sisters. You are them. You are not them. You are broken shards from the same pane of glass, each reflecting a different light.
...moreNotable NYC: 5/31–6/6
Saturday 5/31: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, Ethan Hauser, and Paul Rome have a conversation with publishing insiders Katie Raissian, Erin Harris, and Brittney Inman Canty. Bittersweet (May 2014), Beverly-Whittmore’s new novel, is about a girl and her roommate at a prestigious East Coast college. Rome’s We All Sleep In the Same Room (2013) follows a family spiraling […]
...moreNotable NYC: 5/10–5/16
Saturday 5/10: Stephen Boyer and Holly Pester join the Segue Series. Boyer compiled the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Rachel Kushner and Rob Spillman discuss The Flamethrowers (2013), Kushner’s novel set in the 1970s New York City art world. Brooklyn Public Library, 4 p.m., free. Sunday 5/11: Peter Gizzi and […]
...moreNotable NYC: 1/18–1/24
Saturday 1/18: Ed Steck and Anselm Berrigan join the Segue Reading Series. Steck’s first collection, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and SImulation (2013), is partly composed from a military intelligence technical text. Berrigan has collaborated with painter Jonathan Allen to produce LOADING and with Anna Moschovakis resulting in Anna’s Half / Anselm’s Half. Zinc […]
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Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy
In her new collection, Our Andromeda, Brenda Shaughnessy presents emotions at their most bare in experiences both familiar and alien—and alien sometimes in a literal sense as the speakers regularly shuttle to and from the Andromeda Galaxy, the galaxy closest to our own. At the heart of this hefty collection is a wish for more […]
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 2: “At the Book Shrink” by Brenda Shaughnessy
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. At the Book Shrink one learns to say “my body uses me as a grape uses wine–” to talk about inevitability, the essence of plot.
...moreJazzy Danziger: The Last Poem I Loved, “Epithalament” by Brenda Shaughnessy
Contrary to popular belief, language is not flat, passionless, clichéd and dying, and if you disagree, it’s imperative that you read Brenda Shaughnessy’s poem “Epithalament” as soon as possible. Language must be “weirded” if it’s going to make the ordinary new again and rejuvenate the old ideas. Someone’s bland “I’m sad and exhausted” is Shaughnessy’s […]
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