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…
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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.
Valley Fever by Julia Bloch
Becky Peterson reviews Julia Bloch's Valley Fever today in Rumpus Poetry.
Rose is a Rose is a Password
Sophisticated potentates/misrepresenting Emirates. That couplet may not win any Griffins or Pushcarts, but it could keep the hackers at bay. According to USC computational linguists and their “Poetry Method” of…
That Winter the Wolf Came by Juliana Spahr
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Juliana Spahr's That Winter the Wolf Came today in Rumpus Poetry.
Karankawa by Iliana Rocha
Rigoberto González reviews Iliana Rocha's Karankawa today in Rumpus Poetry.
Little White Lies
Over at the Ploughshares blog, Alex Chertok writes about every author’s necessary little white lies: As adults, we should hold each other’s work to high standards, and our own work to the…
Reconnaissance by Carl Phillips
Alana Folsom reviews Carl Phillips's Reconnaissance today in Rumpus Poetry.
Honest Engine by Kyle Dargan
Lauren Swearingen-Steadwell reviews Kyle Dargan's Honest Engine today in Rumpus Poetry.
Poetry and Topeka
There’s an old joke told among residents of Topeka, Kansas that goes like this: “What’s the difference between Topeka and yogurt?” “Yogurt has an active culture.” Over at Lit Hub,…
(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Michael Broder
If I am a sub poet, is poetry as a genre my dom? Is the particular poem I’m working on my dom?