The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erin Belieu
Erin Belieu discusses her new collection, COME-HITHER HONEYCOMB.
...moreErin Belieu discusses her new collection, COME-HITHER HONEYCOMB.
...moreAriel Francisco discusses his forthcoming second collection, A SINKING SHIP IS STILL A SHIP.
...more[Nina] is not a warrior but a reconnoiter at life’s edge.
...more“I always feel like I’m starting over. I don’t know how I ever wrote a poem. I really do have that feeling.”
...moreThe poem, [Tranströmer] seems to say, doesn’t have to carry every burden of its poet’s heart. It doesn’t need to speak out loud, either.
...moreIn his searing, soulful second collection, Gerard uses the language that is poetry to invite the reader in to the experience of his darkest and brightest moments.
...moreCampbell McGrath talks about his new collection, XX: Poems For The Twentieth Century, capitalism, history, and what it might mean to write a wordless poem.
...moreOver at the Paris Review, Dan Piepenbring talks about James Wright’s famous epiphanic poem Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota, in conjunction with Ann Beattie’s new story Yancey, and the general discussion and controversy of the poem’s famous last line: “I have wasted my life.”
...moreIn letter-writing, we are not really talking, but the words represent the deep-heldness of our communication.
...moreEvery time you write a poem, you’re learning to become a poet once again. Your writing imitates not the banal sequence from life to death, but instead imitates a descent into and out of a new womb of clarity.
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