Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Poetic Voice
All the poetry I have goes other places. It’s still with me. When I think about black lives, or the Black Panther comic, I’m thinking in a poetic sense. In…
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Come In Alone by Anselm Berrigan
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Anselm Berrigan's Come In Alone today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Prose and Poetry of Idra Novey
I find the more furtively I move between genres, the more I surprise myself as a writer. Moving between genres, you carry curious things over and also carry them away.…
Two Poems to Rule Them All
Two poems written by JRR Tolkien have been discovered in a school magazine from 1936. The school’s headteacher described the poems as “very atmospheric and imbued with an air of…
Shock by Shock by Dean Young
Diane K Martin reviews Dean Young's Shock by Shock today in Rumpus Poetry.
Fight to the Death over Literary Genre
Two Russian men found themselves on the opposite ends of an argument over the merits of poetry versus prose. The two were drunk and arguing over which genre was more…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat With Camille Rankine
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Camille Rankine about her new book Incorrect Merciful Impulses, history, and trying to be a writer every day.
Phillis Wheatley, Poet
For Lenny Letter, Doreen St. Félix writes on the legacy of Phillis Wheatley, the first black poet to have her work published in America: In her second life, Wheatley’s poetry—and…
Do Not Rise by Beth Bachmann
Keegan Finberg reviews Beth Bachmann's Do Not Rise today in Rumpus Poetry.
Guildtalk #4: The Rumpus Interview with Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones talks about his forthcoming memoir How Men Fight For Their Lives, his new fellowship program at BuzzFeed, and making peace with the phantom.
The Bible and Birdie Jean
At twelve, my grandfather climbed into his Prayer Tower and said he’d die if he didn’t get $8 million; I was a gay kid living on a Pentecostal compound with…