A Look at Meek Mill vs. Drake through T.S. Eliot’s Writing
Rappers Meek Mill and Drake have been come to blows lately, since Mill claimed Drake doesn’t write his own raps. This also launched a series of Meek Mill memes which Drake projected…
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Shirt in Heaven by Jean Valentine
Ann van Buren reviews Jean Valentine's Shirt in Heaven today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Poetry of Laura Victoria
Kiss me like this – slowly. Your tongue, like a living flame, feeds my burning dreams – and after my heavy-hearted abandonment, a clean breeze brightens the jasmine in my…
The Rumpus Interview with Colin D. Halloran
Writer and former US Army infantryman Colin D. Halloran on his new collection, Icarian Flux, how he used experimental narrative to explore his life with PTSD, and why he doesn't want to be known only as a "war poet."
Shipbreaking by Robin Beth Schaer
Julie Marie Wade reviews Robin Beth Schaer's Shipbreaking today in Rumpus Poetry.
Pool [5 choruses] by Endi Bogue Hartigan
Kent Shaw reviews Endi Bogue Hartigan's Pool [5 choruses] today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda
Last month archivists rediscovered twenty poems by renowned Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, known especially for his love poems and political activism. These previously “lost” poems were never translated into English, and…
Poetry & Paradoxes
When I loved him it felt like light / Coming out of my skin. I don’t mean this / In a good way. In the Boston Review, Lisa Olstein provides…
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop Edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall
Ellen Brown reviews The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop today in Rumpus Poetry.
Pelican by Emily O’Neill
Gina Vaynshteyn reviews Emily O'Neill's Pelican today in Rumpus Poetry.
Poetry Shark
I like to joke that I’m like a shark—my writing has to keep moving or it will die. Ploughshares interviews Jehanne Dubrow about her latest poetry collection, The Arranged Marriage,…
Scattered At Sea by Amy Gerstler
Jeff Lennon reviews Amy Gerstler's Scattered at Sea today in Rumpus Poetry.