poetry
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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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National Poetry Month Day 12: Oliver Bendorf
For today’s installment, we’re pleased to offer three comic poems from Oliver Bendorf. Or perhaps it’s more correct to say they’re poem-comics. Enjoy!
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National Poetry Month Day 11: Keetje Kuipers
Teaching Day Aubade This anxious spring, two of my students become lovers, and on Tuesday evenings I walk home after class
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Or Smash the Mold Straight Off
If this sounds like a Women’s Lib rap, baby, it is. For The New Republic, Michelle Dean writes a lovely and winding essay on the life and feminism of Adrienne Rich: its origins in breaking meter, discovery through therapy, her…
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Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion
Amy Fusselman gathers four writer-artists working in the poetry comics genre to discuss the emerging form.
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National Poetry Month Day 10: Amaud Johnson
Or Idolator: Another Epitaph for Nino your side chick has car trouble. she has a light bill with an open mouth. she eats finger sandwiches or fettuccini alfredo, and keeps an ice cube in her glass of white wine.
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National Poetry Month Day 9: Carrie Murphy
Beauty Work Today I wore jeans in the sweltering heat & sweat pooled in my crotch. There was a girl on the metro with eyeliner like Priscilla Presley
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Poets in Place
Poet Ange Mlinko responds to a challenge from FSG’s Works in Progress series, to “tackle a question—or invent a new one—that lies within [Rilke’s] Letters to a Young Poet.” Mlinko muses on poets and places: do writers of beautiful lines…
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A Hole In the Light by Lucas Jacob
Mag Gabbert reviews Lucas Jacob’s A Hole In the Light today in Rumpus Poetry.
