elegy Archives - The Rumpus

Our Recognizable, Difficult, Earthly Kingdom: Such Color by Tracy K. Smith

Composition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.

The individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.

Jacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.

Kate Gaskin discusses her debut collection, FOREVER WAR.

Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello discusses her debut poetry collection, HOUR OF THE OX.

Paul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.

Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.

“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”

Cameron Awkward-Rich discusses his new collection, DISPATCH.

After all, isn’t this often the truth of loss? What once was home becomes a graveyard.

[I]t is as if I am learning a new language with each poem.