poetry
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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 it brought from the poet’s long career as an industrial…
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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.