poetry
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Carol Ann Duffy’s First Ladies
In a playful reflection on the work and philosophy of poet Carol Ann Duffy, Jeanette Winterson explores the possibilities for storytelling, feminism, and everyday entertainment through poetry. Winterson excerpts poems from The World’s Wife in the voices of historical better…
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The Wynona Stone Poems by Caki Wilkinson
D. Gilson reviews Caki Wilkinson’s The Wynona Stone Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Tom Sleigh
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tom Sleigh about his new book, Station Zed,, how reportage and the surreal can combine inside a poem, and secularizing the mysteries of death, redemption, and resurrection.
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Instant Winner by Carrie Fountain
Caitlin Mackenzie reviews Carrie Fountain’s Instant Winner today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Mélange of Loafing and Looking
In Leslie Jamison’s introduction to a new edition of Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days & Collect, excerpted over at Slate, the word “specimen” is rescued from its isolating, clinical connotations, instead becoming realigned with Whitman’s vision of abundance and celebration. Jamison recounts…
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The Americans by David Roderick
The Americans is no self-help book, no guide to suburban living. Rather, [it] offers all of us a chance to examine the places we make our homes, to remember what these places might mean in the context of American history,…
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The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems About Perfume and Love Poems by Bertolt Brecht
Barbara Berman reviews The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems About Perfume and Bertolt Brecht’s Love Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Night’s Reading by Marthe Reed
Lauren Hall reviews Marthe Reed’s Night’s Reading today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
Patrick James Dunagan reviews The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cynthia Marie Hoffman
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Cynthia Marie Hoffman about her new book, Paper Doll Fetus, twilight sleep, and the importance of giving voice to the voiceless.
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When Poets Become Novelists
Ben Lerner talks with the Guardian about life in Brooklyn, octopuses, and poets: “Poets really haven’t gotten the news that the novel is also dead,” he says, of the opinion among some poets that writing in prose is a capitulation…
