The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Phillip B. Williams
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Phillip B. Williams about his new book Thief in the Interior, form in poetry, and balancing editing work with one’s own.
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Join NOW!The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Phillip B. Williams about his new book Thief in the Interior, form in poetry, and balancing editing work with one’s own.
...moreWe’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from author Camille Dungy! Camille writes to us from The Island of Beautiful Women about discipline, dedication, and one very special turtle volunteer. You can visit Camille at her website here. Don’t miss out! Subscribe to Letters in the Mail today!
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Paul Vangelisti about Amiri Baraka’s S O S Poems 1961-2013, as well as Baraka’s place among American writers and the ways in which his poetry and politics intersected and collided.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Erika Meitner about her new book, Copia, writing about Detroit without writing ruin porn, form, and now-empty shopping malls.
...moreCamille Dungy discusses why she selected Michael Bazzett’s forthcoming You Must Remember This for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
...moreCamille Dungy co-opts one of the many forms Erika Meitner uses in her new book Copia to tell us why she chose it for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
...moreProphecy: After the Dam –Camille Dungy
...moreCamille Dungy on juggling, balance, and getting lost in Jenny Browne’s latest poetry collection, Dear Stranger. Click here to join the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Randall Mann about his new book Straight Razor, Fleet Week, Hart Crane, and Naked Poetry.
...moreMonday 10/28: The “On Arts” series, benefiting the 826 Valencia Scholarship Program, presents British author Zadie Smith in conversation with Steve Winn. $27, 7:30pm at Nourse Theater. Tuesday 10/29: The Moth comes to The Booksmith, featuring an opening story from writer and Moth podcast host Dan Kennedy. Moderated by Moth Artistic Director Catherine Burns with […]
...moreBut grace is what I found in River Inside the River. Grace in abundance.
...moreThese poems are not traps, but safe spaces with doors inside them.
...moreCamille T. Dungy on why she selected Book of Dog by Cleopatra Mathis for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club in November.
...moreRumpus Poetry Book Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Linda Hogan’s Indios as March’s selection.
...moreRumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Joseph Harrington’s Things Come On as the March selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club. Devastation. Conflation. Preoccupation. Disintegration. Joseph Harrington’s Things Come On (Wesleyan UP) is a book about loss; it’s also a book about what lingers.
...moreThe Blue One will live to see the Caterpillar rut everything they walk on—seacliff buckwheat cleared, relentless ice plant to replace it, the wild fields bisected
...moreHi everyone. I sort of took today off along with everyone else here at The Rumpus, but there was a lot of good stuff in the po-world this week and I wanted to pass it along. For starters, Memorious launched their blog today, and their first official post is “what books we’re looking forward to […]
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