Angel Park by Roberto F. Santiago
Melissa Adamo reviews Roberto F. Santiago's Angel Park today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Michael Hecht
Poet, historian, and philosopher Jennifer Michael Hecht talks about Thomas Aquinas, Robin Williams, and her most recent book, Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It.
Barbara Berman’s National Poetry Month Picks
Barbara Berman offers some quality suggestions on poetry to read during the month of April, and beyond.
National Poetry Month Day 7: from “The Singing Ape, Or, Life in Pink” by Amy Letter
from “The Singing Ape, Or, Life in Pink”
National Poetry Month Day 6: Honorée Jeffers
According to the Testimony to the Grand Jury of Newport, Rhode Island by the Sailor John Cranston, After Throwing a Coromantee Woman Into the Sea, James DeWolf, the Captain of the Slave Ship…
Yeats’s Easter Poem
The Ploughshares blog looks at William Butler Yeats’s “Easter 1916” and the violent uprising that inspired it.
National Poetry Month Day 5: “Innocence: A Memoir” by Kathleen Ossip
Innocence: A Memoir All souls grow roughly, out of careless errors. This month brings two things: the moon and you, both at my breasts.
National Poetry Month Day 4: “Both/Both” by Oliver Bendorf
BOTH/BOTH “We were just kids.” –Patti Smith I’m asking if she wants dumbbells on the top or sort of smack down
National Poetry Month Day 1: “To Proceed, You Must First Understand” by Barbara Jane Reyes
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2015! For the last six years, we here at The Rumpus have run a new poem every day in April (and often into May) to…
Tranströmer in Memoriam
Tomas Tranströmer, the beloved Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, has passed away at age 83. Tranströmer was notable for the economy of his work, its quiet optimism, and the insights…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: A Defense of Conceptual Poetry
My friends, I'm deeply humbled by the opportunity to speak before the most important poetic body in the world, the Internet.