poetry
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Bone Map by Sara Eliza Johnson
Molly Spencer reviews Sara Eliza Johnson’s Bone Map today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Our Words, Possessed by Fans
In the driest language possible, I would say that fan fiction successfully undermines the traditional American heteronormative dynamic in ways that can’t be undone. In wetter language, fan fiction sexualizes. It’s transgressive because it suggests the possibility of the erotic.…
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A Woman Without a Country by Eavan Boland
Barbara Berman reviews Eavan Boland’s A Woman Without a Country today in Rumpus Poetry.
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I Was Not Born by Julia Cohen
Virginia Konchan reviews Julie Cohen’s I Was Not Born today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Nick Flynn’s New Book
Nick Flynn, friend and contributor to The Rumpus, has just released My Feelings, a poetry collection described by NewPages as “finely textured” with “a memoirist’s robust conception of personal history.” You can catch Nick Flynn reading at Bookcourt in Brooklyn…
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The Problem with Poems
The fatal problem with poetry: poems. At the London Review of Books, Ben Lerner discusses the difficulty of memorizing Marianne Moore’s “Poetry” and how every failed poem is actually what makes poetry successful as a whole.
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A Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014 by Marilyn Hacker
Ann van Buren reviews Marilyn Hacker’s A Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014 today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sandra Beasley
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Sandra Beasley about her new book Count the Waves, sestinas, and how actions can serve as signposts in the time stream.
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Pictograph by Melissa Kwasny
Wendy Willis reviews Melissa Kwasny’s Pictograph today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Arranged Marriage by Jehanne Dubrow
Julie Marie Wade reviews Jehanne Dubrow’s The Arranged Marriage today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Poet Ahead of His Time
Stephen Crane, who died at age 28 from tuberculosis in June 1900, is remembered more for his fiction, such as The Red Badge of Courage, than his poetry. But perhaps, argues Jynne Dilling Marton, this should not be the case:…
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I Am the Modern Man
A new website called Poetry for Robots seeks to find out whether robots can learn human poetic language. It was inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s theory that despite humanity’s near-infinite capacity for creating distinct metaphors, we still use the same…