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.
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.
Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Diane Seuss's Four-Legged Girl today in Rumpus Poetry.
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…
Notes on the Assemblage by Juan Felipe Herrera
Barbara Berman reviews Juan Felipe Herrera's Notes From the Assemblage today in Rumpus Poetry.
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.”
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
Linda Ashok reviews Ada Limón's Bright Dead Things today in Rumpus Poetry.
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.
The Last Poem I Loved: “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins
I wish I could tell my daughter to please don’t leave her world. To stay where she is as long as she can.
Folk Poets and Scrambled Eggs
I think that’s avant-garde—the meeting of need and language. Over at Lit Hub, contemporary poetic hero Ben Lerner sits down with contemporary poetic heroine Eileen Myles to talk about vernacular, supercilious…