poetry
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(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?
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impossible bottle by Claudia Emerson
Ellen F. Brown reviews Claudia Emerson’s impossible bottle today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Karrie Higgins
The more narratives that approach reality “differently” get treated as “insane” or “unreal,” the less readers are exposed to them, and the more “unreal” or “insane” they seem. It’s like a feedback loop.
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The Father of the Arrow is the Thought by Christopher Deweese
Julie Marie Wade reviews Christopher DeWeese’s The Father of the Arrow is the Thought today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Diane Seuss’s Four-Legged Girl today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Canonized Outrage
Can one speak about suffering if one hasn’t experienced it? Kenneth Goldsmith has long been a figure of tension in the literary community: at once a savior for the conceptual intellectualists and avant-garde, and a malicious clown bent on provocation…
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The Rumpus Interview with Amy Fusselman
Amy Fusselman discusses her latest memoir/manifesto/philosophical treatise Savage Park, the rise of a new kind of nonfiction, and what kind of art “discombobulates her and makes her scream.”
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Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
Linda Ashok reviews Ada Limón’s Bright Dead Things today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Mary Karr
Mary Karr talks about her new book The Art of Memoir, the perception of memoir from a “trashy” form, the virtues of poetry, and the complexity of truth-telling.


