poetry
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The Rumpus Interview with Bud Smith
Novelist Bud Smith talks about his new book, F-250, working construction and metalworking, finding writing after his friend’s death, and crashing his car over and over again.
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How Strangers Form Constellations That Make Sense of the World
“How much does it cost to write a poem?” A red-headed teen asks, she is with a friend who has similarly long and shiny hair. “Nothing.” I spread my arms wide.
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The Gaffer by Celeste Gainey
Rebecca Bornstein reviews Celeste Gainey’s The Gaffer today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Of Gardens and Graves by Suvir Kaul
Manash Bhattacharjee reviews Suvir Kaul’s Of Gardens and Graves today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Why We Should (Still) Read (More) Translations
We here in the US are shitty. Also the rest of the world is shitty. Reading books in translation reminds us of this. The rest of the world is as shitty as we are, only it’s a different kind of…
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zero to three by F. Douglas Brown
Samantha Duncan reviews zero to three by F. Douglas Brown today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Dante’s Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the Vita Nuova
Barbara Berman reviews Dante’s Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the Vita Nuova today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Poems I Loved: John Berryman’s Dream Songs #265 and #279
I have a tendency to read difficult books when my life is difficult.
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I Have Wasted My Life
Over at the Paris Review, Dan Piepenbring talks about James Wright’s famous epiphanic poem Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota, in conjunction with Ann Beattie’s new story Yancey, and the general discussion and controversy…
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The Marriage of Science and Poetry
Brain Pickings explores beloved science writer Oliver Sacks’s memoir On the Move: A Life, paying particularly close attention to the growth of his friendship with poet Thom Gunn, a friendship both beautiful and important for Sacks in his development as a writer.
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Preserving Poetic Packaging
Remember the literary packaging that Jonathan Safran Foer developed with Chipotle? Well, someone at Yale has decided it’s worth holding onto—the Beinecke Rare Book Library will soon add a complete set of the cups and carry-out bags printed with the…
