Practicing Yoga with Sylvia Plath
This is the Plath poem I relate the most to shavasana. You sink down, you bubble back up. The Duchess of Nothing in yoga pants. For Carrie Frye, yoga practice…
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Buy Bishop’s North Haven
If you happen to know a poet with $130,000 burning a hole through his or her pocket, alert them at once: Elizabeth Bishop’s home in Nova Scotia is up for…
A Famous Blues / Go Find Your Father by Harmony Holiday
Kent Shaw reviews Harmony Holiday's A Famous Blues / Go Find Your Father today in Rumpus Poetry.
A Woman Without a Country by Eavan Boland
Jenna Le reviews Eavan Boland's A Woman Without a Country today in Rumpus Poetry.
Love Sonnets and Elegies by Louise Labé, translated by Richard Sieburth
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Richard Sieburth's translation of Louise Labé's Love Sonnets and Elegies today in Rumpus Poetry.
The View from Saturn by Alice Friman
Tariq al Haydar reviews Alice Friman's The View from Saturn today in Rumpus Poetry.
Rehabbing Poets’ Broken Records
New audio preservation technology just opened a treasure trove at Harvard: thousands of recordings of influential poets reading their work, once feared too deteriorated to salvage, are now being recovered.…
Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
Barbara Berman reviews Mary Oliver's Blue Horses today in Rumpus Poetry.
Prose on the Prose Poem in Poetry
In the December issue of Poetry Magazine, reprinted on the Harriet Blog, Molly Peacock shares an extended meditation on the prose poem. Before troubling the easy dichotomies often ascribed to…
The Rumpus Interview with Brian Turner
Brian Turner discusses his new memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, the Iraq War, poetry and prose, and his family's long history of serving in the military.
Mark Strand, 1934–2014
And when you report back to your own daily world after experiencing the strangeness of a world sort of recombined and reordered in the depths of a poet’s soul, the…