National Poetry Month Day 6: Wendy Chin-Tanner
AFTER LIKUNT DANIEL AILIN Sculpture by Kehinde Wiley, 2013
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Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Hanif WIllis-Abdurraqib reviews Tyehimba Jess's Olio today in Rumpus Poetry.
Just Wing It
Robert Minto examines selections from Homer’s Iliad to discover why some language and rhetoric misses its mark while other characters’ “winging words” achieve their purpose.
A Major Poet of Quiet
Keith Waldrop is a quiet major poet, a major poet of quiet. His accomplishment is difficult to describe because his work refuses, in Bartleby-like fashion, the twin traps of impassivity…
National Poetry Month Day 5: Tiffany Midge
Tweets as Assigned Text for a Native American Studies Course Selected Tweets of @TiffanyMidge
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Primal Talk
One of the thrills of being a writer is becoming aware of the wildness that percolates inside of you. If you’ve learned to listen, you’re able to hear it.
The Rumpus Interview with Campbell McGrath
Campbell McGrath talks about his new collection, XX: Poems For The Twentieth Century, capitalism, history, and what it might mean to write a wordless poem.
National Poetry Month Day 3: Adam McGovern
Perseid meteors, 2015 I went to dig for falling stars alone in a shadowed field
The Conversation: Jayson Smith and A. H. Jerriod Avant
My responsibility is to not be negligent and cause unnecessary harm. To a listener or reader. My allegiance is only to truth.
National Poetry Month Day 2: Paula Bohince
THE FLINT RIVER Like the Lethe, which says Forget, or the one in Egypt, a river will take into itself what is offered: run-offs, toxic
The Conversation: José Olivarez and Nate Marshall
There are so many spaces in this country where I feel unsafe particularly because of my body.