Eileen Myles Is a “Hall of Mirrors”
Famous people are of course the repositories for the hopes, dreams, and shames of the non famous. Arielle Greenberg, editor of Rumpus series (K)ink: Writing While Deviant, writes searchingly about herself,…
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Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Molly Spencer reviews Richard Zenith's translation of Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
Men Explain Submissions To Me
Perhaps he thought he was doing me a favor by explaining this to me so I might not get into further trouble. I’m afraid I have continued to get myself into trouble instead.
Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen
Linda Ashok reviews Chen Chen's Set the Garden on Fire today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Interview with Laura Mullen
Acclaimed poet and writer Laura Mullen talks about her new book, Complicated Grief, obsession, germ theory, and exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.
Poetry As Enchantment by Dana Gioia
Barbara Berman reviews Dana Gioia's Poetry As Enchantment today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Defeat
It never occurred to me to try to write poems without the guidance of other poets and poems.
Ventriloquy by Athena Kildegaard
Wendy Chin-Tanner reviews Athena Kildegaard's Ventriloquy today in Rumpus Poetry.
Before Virginia Woolf, There Was Lola Ridge
At The New Republic, Terese Svoboda discusses “the forgotten feminism of Lola Ridge,” a radical poet who she says paved the way for feminist writers like Woolf with her 1919…
Drink by Laura Madeline Wiseman
Christopher David Hopkins reviews Laura Madeline Wiseman's Drink today in Rumpus Poetry.
Listening to Tao Yuan Ming by Dennis Maloney
Julie Marie Wade reviews Dennis Maloney's Listening to Tao Yuan Ming today in Rumpus Poetry.
“Throw Something Down Hard Enough, You Discover Its Laws”
Maybe my faith that the profoundest feeling we're offered by art that really hits us deep in is a setting free, a series of screens or horizons obliterated somehow lovingly.