Lightning Rods and Line Breaks: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed
Frighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.
...moreFrighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreErin Belieu discusses her new collection, COME-HITHER HONEYCOMB.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreA look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
...moreRumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
...moreBarbara Berman reviews seven poetry collections to celebrate National Poetry Month.
...moreRumpus editors share share new and forthcoming collections we’re especially excited about!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreRumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to Black history past, present, and future.
...moreDanez Smith discusses their new collection, HOMIE.
...moreBooks releasing in the first half of 2020 that we can’t wait to read!
...more[I]t is as if I am learning a new language with each poem.
...moreAttention—where it is, where it is not—pervades If the House.
...moreThe Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new poems daily from poets we admire, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreThese speaker(s) don’t need to offer us explanation.
...moreEileen G’Sell discusses her debut collection, Life After Rugby, how and why she chose her book’s title, and challenging gender categories.
...moreMatthews is a poet of multivalent ways and hows, an artist at home in the riddle of refusal.
...moreWe asked nineteen authors what books they’d suggest as recommended reading in light of America’s new political reality.
...moreThe 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.
...moreFirst, Brandon Hicks’s most recent comic provides a guidepost for the maturing male artist. Then, in a cutting Saturday Essay, Eileen G’Sell exposes the forward-looking and regressive trends in advertising. Though Progressive’s fully-clothed and “offbeat” spokeswoman, “Flo,” is a step in the right direction, other advertisers seem to be balking. And in a review of Carl Phillips’s thirteenth collection, Reconnaissance, […]
...moreAlana Folsom reviews Carl Phillips’s Reconnaissance today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreIt’s that time of year again, where writers young and old, from all corners of the country, come to congregate in one gigantic, frenetic, neurotic, alcohol-infused crowd, in a couple of fancy hotels no one can really afford, to stay in and talk shop (or not, depending on how your writing’s been this year). That’s right: […]
...moreDouble Shadow seems to find the poet at mid-breath, or in a time of transition where the voice may be in flux from previous work; but the watchful eye, and the careful hand that crafts these verses, is still ever-present.
...moreIn Double Shadow, suffering puts its hypothermic hand on the backs of all living creatures. In that sense, it might help to think of it as a spiritual book, a lyric struggle of an individual in the face of mortal suffering.
...moreCarl Phillips is a masterful maker of sweet visual dances that are never cloying.
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