poetry
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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.
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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 labels, the trials and tribulations of a young poet after…
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The Yellow Door by Amy Uyematsu
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Amy Uyematsu’s The Yellow Door today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Silent anatomies by Monica Ong
Kenji Liu reviews Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Poetics of Wild Hundreds
I’m always telling stories, but I sort of fuck with the idea of thinking about myself and my work in a lyrical sense. Because that’s now how I’ve traditionally thought about myself. And it pushes up against the way the…
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Swan Feast by Natalie Eilbert
Julie Marie Wade reviews Natalie Eilbert’s Swan Feast today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Poetry of the Moment
Juan Felipe Herrera is at the top of his game…He served as California’s Poet Laureate from 2012-2014, the first Latino poet to hold that post. He’s also the first Latino to be U.S. Poet Laureate. He’s the only child of…
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Heliopause by Heather Christle
Barbara Berman reviews Heather Christle’s Heliopause today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Poet Laureate Grew Up a Migrant Worker, Seeing Poetry All Around Him
Those are some deep landscapes of mountains and grape fields and barns and tractors; families gathering at night to have little celebrations in the mountains and aquamarine lakes way down below. So, see, all that is like living in literature…
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White Jealousy
The new Best American Poetry anthology, edited by Sherman Alexie, contains a poem by the very white Michael Derrick Hudson who used the pen-name Yi-Fen Chou to get his poem into publication. Now, Asian American poets are pushing to get readers…
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Lighting the Shadow by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Jeff Lennon reviews Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Lighting the Shadow today in Rumpus Poetry.
