poetry
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Poetry As Propaganda
Oxford academic Elisabeth Kendall has found that poetry may be a major recruitment tool for militant jihadis in the Middle East. Although poetry is often sidelined in Western cultures, it is still important in Arab-speaking nations, where a reality TV show…
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Crazy Brave
Considering that most poetry isn’t read, “is it brave or crazy to devote oneself to poetry,” the New York Times asks. Citing poet Christopher Gilbert’s recently republished manuscript, the article says: Whether Christopher Gilbert’s poetry—or any poet’s poetry—will outlive the…
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Opened and Raw
The violence enters together with the beauty. Over at Electric Literature, Claire Schwartz writes about the power of recitation from memory, and about entering the poetry of Ai through memorization and rhythm and never leaving, despite the discomfort, the burning.
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The Rumpus Interview with Paul Kingsnorth
Author and poet Paul Kingsnorth talks about writing an entire novel in a “shadow-tongue” of Old English, and what that taught him about our contemporary world.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: From the Earth to the Stars Part Two
Our understandings of our experiences are sometimes shapeless. Like shadows, they move on.
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Rise of the Poetic Machines
For Motherboard at VICE, Elizabeth Preston profiles the work of Sarah Harmon, a programmer in the field of computational creativity. Harmon has taken significant steps in designing programs that can learn the rules of language and literature to create their…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Shane McCrae
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Shane McCrae about his new book The Animal Too Big to Kill, listening to music while writing, addressing God in poetry, and The Oak Ridge Boys.
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Flashes of Reality
At The Fanzine, Lucy Tiven reviews Micah Ling’s recent collection of poems, Flashes of Life. She focuses on the use of song in Ling’s poems, and how it allows Ling to play with the dichotomy of reality and fantasy: I believe…
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The Glory Gets by Honorée Jeffers
Barbara Berman reviews Honorée Jeffers’s The Glory Gets today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Debut Poets of 2015
Over at Lit Hub, some of the most notable poetry debuts of this past year talk about what it was like to release their first collections.
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Creature Feature by Ruth Foley
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens reviews Ruth Foley’s Creature Feature today in Rumpus Poetry.
