Courageous Music: Jane Mead’s To the Wren: Collected & New Poems
Her poems make felt observations sing, no matter the subject.
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Posts Tagged: Philip Levine
The Mentor Series: Kimberly King Parsons and Victoria Redel
Kimberly King Parsons interviews her mentor, Victoria Redel.
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Meditation
We looked up as we moved. A handful of stars watched us behind a ripped black canvas of clouds. It started to rain as we all got to our cars. The skies poured down globs of heavy rain that burst out like tiny bombs around us.
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Reckoning with the Bros: Trump, Bly, and Swimming in the Sea of Grief
There are dark forces roiling beneath the surface of American life.
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Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #3: Poetry That Asks You to Sit and Sort This Whole Thing Out
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 column this month—and we are all lucky for it. Enjoy Jen’s robust selections and I’ll see you in May.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Christina Stoddard
These are things we don’t talk about and I’m here to talk about them. You will either come along with me on that—or not.
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In Plain Sight: The Vanishing of Ellen Bass
Putting her experiences into a broader context, [Bass] now saw, was essential to “creating openings for readers to enter her poems and for the poems to enter her readers.”
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ada Limón
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Ada Limón about her new book Bright Dead Things, writing love poems in an age of cynicism, and committing to places.
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Coming Close: Forty Essays About Philip Levine Edited by Edited by Mari L’esperance & Tomas Q Morin
Barbara Berman reviews Coming Close: Forty Essaya About Philip Levine today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreDavid Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Naming Names
Michael Lista nails it with his review of The Open Door: One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine, the anthology celebrating 100 years of Poetry, edited by Don Share and Chistian Wiman. University of Chicago hails the collection as a “new kind of anthology.” But it is less an anthology than a curatorial enterprise. It’s less […]
...moreCelebrate Poetry (Tonight!)
Knopf and Tumblr are presenting a celebration of poetry tonight at Housing Works Bookstore in NYC. The event will feature Poet Laureate Philip Levine and 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy K. Smith, along with poets from the Tumblr community, Saeed Jones and Karolina Manko.
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