Julie Marie Wade
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The Rumpus Interview With Brenda Miller
Author Brenda Miller discusses the lyric essay, her “poet self” who always bleeds through, and what she’s writing about next.
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Trouble the Water by Derrick Austin
Julie Marie Wade reviews Derrick Austin’s Trouble the Water today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Listening to Tao Yuan Ming by Dennis Maloney
Julie Marie Wade reviews Dennis Maloney’s Listening to Tao Yuan Ming today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy talks with Deesha Philyaw in the Saturday Interview. They discuss themes pertinent to Detroit, the setting of Flournoy’s book, The Turner House. Some include housing discrimination, hip-hop, respectability politics, and the challenges of writing truthfully…
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The Rumpus Interview with Karen Salyer McElmurray
Karen Salyer McElmurray talks about academia, the relationship between flaws and perfection, writing memoir, and the “tapestry” of writers who inspire her.
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The Father of the Arrow is the Thought by Christopher Deweese
Julie Marie Wade reviews Christopher DeWeese’s The Father of the Arrow is the Thought today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Brandon Hicks gives us “Leonard: The Dad From A Different Generation.” Next, Gayle Brandeis offers a personal and insightful portrait of female body image in the Saturday Essay, “Thunder, Thighs.” Before Brandeis’s own view of her thighs was changed forever, they…
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Swan Feast by Natalie Eilbert
Julie Marie Wade reviews Natalie Eilbert’s Swan Feast today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Long Engagement
The image that comes to my mind is a foot hovering above a stair. Marriage is the fabled next step, but engagement implies a kind of limbo, an almost-not-quite-there yet—the zero that comes before the one.
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The Rumpus Interview with Les Standiford
Prolific writer and Director of the FIU Creative Writing Program Les Standiford takes a look back at his career in books, including Water to the Angels and Bringing Adam Home, and tells us what’s next.
