poetry
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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, and her shark-like writing process.
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Scattered At Sea by Amy Gerstler
Jeff Lennon reviews Amy Gerstler’s Scattered at Sea today in Rumpus Poetry.
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It’s Hard Out Here for a Poet
Years ago, I had this great photo of a storm spiral over Antarctica. It was a full-page photo I ripped out of a magazine, probably a National Geographic, and which I eventually lost somewhere. But I think of it every…
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The Poetic Power of Pedestrians
By merely wandering, the dérivist frustrates the spatial logic of capitalism, in the process discovering new currents, fissures, and vortices of possibility within a deeply familiar space. Wandering and drifting have long been championed as means of inspiration, but how…
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Alive: New and Selected Poems by Elizabeth Willis
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Elizabeth Willis’s Alive: New and Selected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in the Subjunctive
Perhaps the city looked more poignantly lovely because I was conscious of its tragic history.
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The Poetics of Everything
Sure, there’s poetry and there are certain conventions associated with it, but the notion of poetics can exist outside of a literary space. The Believer blog interviews poet Lucy Ives and discusses her views on applying literary theory outside of…
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For Your Safety Please Hold On by Kayla Czaga
Eric Farwell reviews Kayla Czaga’s For Your Safety Please Hold On today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Logan Notebooks by Rebecca Lindenberg
Jeff Alessandrelli reviews Rebecca Lindenberg’s The Logan Notebooks today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Rigoberto González
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Rigoberto González about his new book Our Lady of the Crossword, cover image censorship, and the BP oil disaster.
