poetry
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Series | India by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.
Dana Johnson reviews Elizabeth T. Gray Jr’s Series | India today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Poetry for the Shopping Mall
Ah, happy food court! Peaceful kingdom! Is it possible that all these tables now are empty Where once families did jostle for a feasting place? Over at The Toast, a lovely and timely poem, “Ode to an Abandoned Shopping Mall,”…
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Reading Poetry Aloud to Keep It Alive
So if, like me, you’re often inclined to bemoan the state of poetry, to assume it is shamefully neglected by our culture and by the young in particular, then do yourself a favor and don’t just read, listen. Take yourself…
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Nothing to Declare by Henri Cole
Jessie Carty reviews Henri Cole’s Nothing to Declare today in Rumpus Poetry.
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How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
Trevor Ketner reviews Terrance Hayes’s How to Be Drawn today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Larkin’s Social Anxiety
Philip Larkin disliked literary parties. He also disliked giving lectures. His general dislike of public and social events led the British poet to push back against attempts to nominate him for a prestigious Oxford professorship. He also turned down the poet laureateship…
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Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury by Paul Strohm
Barbara Berman reviews Paul Strohm’s Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Marge Piercy
Dara Barnat talks with Marge Piercy about growing up in Detroit, making a kind of Judaism through poetry, and living close to the natural world.
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Less Like a Communication
This poetry was a poetry meant to be read loudly, breathlessly, full-throttle, full of sonic energy and internal rhyme. It felt less like a communication from a speaker to a reader and more like sheet music for a reader to…
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The Kings, Queens, and Pawns of Poetry
For the Kenyon Review blog, Amit Majmudar compares creating poetic style to playing a game of chess and looks at how poets reach that elusive checkmate.
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One Thousand Things Worth Knowing by Paul Muldoon
Ann Van Buren reviews Paul Muldoon’s One Thousand Things Worth Knowing today in Rumpus Poetry.
