poetry
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Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015 by Chana Bloch
Julie Enszer reviews Chana Bloch’s Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015 today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kathleen Ossip
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kathleen Ossip about her new book, The Do Over, Catholic school, the afterlife, poem-like things, and how form sets sorely-needed limits.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Fall
We are always falling, all the time, under the sway of one another, in and out of love.
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The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Mary McMyne reviews Jeannine Hall Gailey’s The Robot Scientist’s Daughter today in Rumpus Poetry.
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When Poets Ate Peacock
The New Yorker recalls the night that Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats met over a dinner of peacock, and examines the role of public relations in the life of a poet.
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Bigfoot for Women by Amy Pickworth
Melissa Adamo reviews Amy Pickworth’s Bigfoot for Women today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Hypnos by René Char Translated by Mark Hutchinson
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Mark Hutchinson’s translation of René Char’s Hypnos today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Storm Toward Morning by Malachi Black
Phillip B. Williams reviews Malachi Black’s Storm Toward Morning today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Joys of Reading Jorie
At the New York Times, Dwight Garner reviews Jorie Graham’s new collected, From the New World: 1976-2014. Graham is a giant of American poetry, and the volume follows her career as the margins drift in and out, the trees indicate…
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Resurrection Party by Michalle Gould
Katherine Frain reviews Michalle Gould’s Resurrection Party today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Susanne Paola Antonetta
Poet and memoirist Susanne Paola Antonetta discusses literary bias, feminism, and the origin of her nom de plume.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: A Scream of Consciousness
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.