poetry
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What Eyes Does Your Poem Have?
And this is how poetry derives its power, its agency, by the ways it can direct the eye. But the poet has a different toolkit from a visual artist. The world of a poem builds incrementally: it grows, it accretes.
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I’m Sorry, Who?
One of the things I run into surprisingly often is people saying to me, ‘I’ve never heard of you before’… Yet I’ve been publishing in ‘mainstream’ journals and my book won [the Pulitzer] prize, so what is it that is…
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What’s Coming Up for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club is finishing up this month’s book, Reginald Dwayne Betts’s incredible Bastards of the Reagan Era, and getting ready for our online chat with the author (my favorite part of the Rumpus Book Club experience), but I thought it…
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The Gods Are Dead by Joanna C. Valente
Anthony Cappo reviews Joanna C. Valente’s The Gods Are Dead today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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 begin to understand it. Jacqueline Woodson’s “Lift Every Voice” at the Poetry…
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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.
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Valley Fever by Julia Bloch
Becky Peterson reviews Julia Bloch’s Valley Fever today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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 password protection, Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams may have…
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That Winter the Wolf Came by Juliana Spahr
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Juliana Spahr’s That Winter the Wolf Came today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Karankawa by Iliana Rocha
Rigoberto González reviews Iliana Rocha’s Karankawa today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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 highest of all. As writers, we shouldn’t settle for a…
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Reconnaissance by Carl Phillips
Alana Folsom reviews Carl Phillips’s Reconnaissance today in Rumpus Poetry.