poetry
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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.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ben Fama
Ben Fama talks about his first full-length poetry collection, Fantasy, the New Narrative movement, and the worst thing that could happen at the Chateau Marmont.
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Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems 1970-2014 by Don McKay
Jim Johnstone reviews Don McKay’s Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems 1970-2014 today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Animalities by David Dodd Lee
Jessica Guzman Alderman reviews David Dodd Lee’s Animalities today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Do-Over by Kathleen Ossip
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kathleen Ossip’s The Do-Over today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A New Read on Bishop
For a poet as anthologized as Elizabeth Bishop, it’s fair to say there’s a certain lack of serious criticism—or perhaps, critics thinking seriously—about her work, compared to the Modernists against whose influence she was writing. Eavan Boland reviews a new…
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The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Manguso
Poet Sarah Manguso discusses her new memoir, Ongoingness, graphomania, and how motherhood does (or doesn’t) change being a writer.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Paul Vangelisti
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Paul Vangelisti about Amiri Baraka’s S O S Poems 1961-2013, as well as Baraka’s place among American writers and the ways in which his poetry and politics intersected and collided.
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Barely Composed by Alice Fulton
Casey Patrick reviews Alice Fulton’s Barely Composed today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Momentary Glory by Harvey Shapiro
Barbara Berman reviews Harvey Shapiro’s A Momentary Glory>/em> today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The New Poem
Every once in a while over a period of a few weeks or more I compile some objectives for poetry in the form of a list, something I call one-sentence lectures.
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Reliquaria by R. A. Villanueva
Kenji Liu reviews R. A. Villanueva’s Reliquaria today in Rumpus Poetry.