Notable NYC: 2/25–3/3
Saturday 2/25: Christian Hawkey and Himanshu Suri join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Emily Brandt and Ali Power join the SOLO reading series. Wendy’s Subway, 7 p.m.,…
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Nick Flynn
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Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #1: Poetry That Moves Like a City Street
I’m spending National Poetry Month at the Millay Colony, former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My colleague and friend, poet and writer Jen Fitzgerald, will be writing the Mixtape…
The Way We Were
Things in my own life that make me want to write about them are often things that are unresolved. And I use writing to figure them out. Memoirists Meredith Maran,…
Retracing Steps
Like so many silenced publications before them, Esquire has gone the way of the ear with a new Classics podcast that unearths articles from the magazine’s illustrious eighty-year history. In…
My Feelings by Nick Flynn
Lisa Williams reviews Nick Flynn's My Feelings today in Rumpus Poetry.
Nick Flynn’s New Book
Nick Flynn, friend and contributor to The Rumpus, has just released My Feelings, a poetry collection described by NewPages as “finely textured” with “a memoirist’s robust conception of personal history.”…
AWP 2015 Offsite Event: GUTTER TALK
The Rumpus and Fence are proud to present GUTTER TALK, an AWP 2015 offsite event!
The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Beth Bachmann
In Episode 8 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, poet Beth Bachmann chats about her new collection, Do Not Rise, Dolly Parton, and the demands of lyric poetry.
Rock Out With Your Book Out #3: Nick Flynn
Full of youthful energy, hilarious anecdotes, refreshingly honest insights about life and how the fuck we are supposed to move through it all, he's got this presence that could convince anyone that our experiences do not, in fact, have the power to break us.
Notes for a Twenty-Something’s Memoir
You tell yourself to get as far from your mother and the suburbs as possible. You vow to embrace slutdom in college and not to wear underwear.