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…
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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…
Errata by Lisa Fay Coutley
Allison Donohue reviews Lisa Fay Coutley's Errata today in Rumpus Poetry.
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.
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…
The Ruined Elegance by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Christina Cook reviews Fiona Sze-Lorrain's The Ruined Elegance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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.
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…
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…
The Gods Are Dead by Joanna C. Valente
Anthony Cappo reviews Joanna C. Valente's The Gods Are Dead today in Rumpus Poetry.
On Getting Over Your Fear of Poetry
For some, poetry can seem out of reach. It’s like a different language. I don’t understand poetry very well, and I have to re-read everything several times before I even…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Thorpe Moeckel
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Thorpe Moeckel about his new book Arcadia Road, the challenge of writing long poems, raising twins, and camo thongs.