poetry
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Alliance and Condemnation by Claudio Rodriguez
Barbara Berman reviews Claudio Rodriguez’s Alliance and Condemnation, translated by Philip Silver, today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Reginald Dwayne Betts
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new book Bastards of the Reagan Era.
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I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems by Eileen Myles
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Eileen Myles’s I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Medicinal Literature
Electric Literature posted a conversation with author Sandra Cisneros, in which she talks about books and their healing power, and the importance of poetry today: This is a time for poetry. Poets are the ones who are always called to speak the…
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Sometimes English Needs to be Broken
Nationally touring poet, performer, and writer Fatimah Asghar is “almost always in-between two places.” Her parents were born in Kashmir and Pakistan. They moved to the US, and died when she was five. In Corinne Segal’s article, Asghar describes her “brokenness”…
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Errata by Lisa Fay Coutley
Allison Donohue reviews Lisa Fay Coutley’s Errata today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Small Story About the Sky by Alberto Rios
Jeff Lennon reviews Alberto Rios’s A Small Story About the Sky today in Rumpus Poetry.
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New Dylan Thomas Poem, Fresh Off the Presses
It’s the literary equivalent of a lost Beatles track. In 1942, Dylan Thomas published a poem in Lilliput magazine. Shortly thereafter, the magazine went defunct, and its archives were acquired by “the late porn baron Paul Raymond.” Today, the poem…
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The Ruined Elegance by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Christina Cook reviews Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s The Ruined Elegance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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What Eyes Does Your Poem Have?
And this is how poetry derives its power, its agency, by the ways it can direct the eye. But the poet has a different toolkit from a visual artist. The world of a poem builds incrementally: it grows, it accretes.
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I’m Sorry, Who?
One of the things I run into surprisingly often is people saying to me, ‘I’ve never heard of you before’… Yet I’ve been publishing in ‘mainstream’ journals and my book won [the Pulitzer] prize, so what is it that is…
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What’s Coming Up for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club is finishing up this month’s book, Reginald Dwayne Betts’s incredible Bastards of the Reagan Era, and getting ready for our online chat with the author (my favorite part of the Rumpus Book Club experience), but I thought it…