poetry
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Serendipity in Life and Literature
Be unpredictable, including to yourself. So there’s the question of how do you go about finding things—or better their finding you? You have to be open to surprise and at the same time assiduous in pursuing the things you are…
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National Poetry Month Day 13: Rita Mae Reese
Another Funeral in WV –After Adrienne Rich Aunt Kay’s tigers were never in a tapestry and were really just some prescriptions and a tabby that she called Baby. Baby bit and clawed at her ankles,
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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…
