Poems from Guantanamo
In 2010, French poet Frank Smith took the transcripts of the initial combatant status review tribunals from Guantanamo and turned them into a book of poetry. The New Inquiry looks…
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The Tulip-Flame by Chloe Honum
Casey Thayer reviews Chloe Honum's The Tulip-Flame today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Holy Ghost People by Joshua Young
Julie Marie Wade reviews Joshua Young's The Holy Ghost People today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Daniel Anderson
In Episode 5 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick sits down with poet Daniel Anderson to chat about his latest collection, The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel, finding the rhythm in lines of poetry, and baseball.
Word of the Day: Logodaedaly
(n.); cunning in words; skill in adorning speech; the arbitrary or capricious coinage of words; from late Latin and Greek, log (“speech, word”) and daidalos (“skillful, ingeniously formed) Every society…
Gephyromania by TC Tolbert
Charlie Atkinson reviews TC Tolbert's Gephyromania today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 10
Becoming a poet means locating what images and symbols, what argument and figuration, are best suited to convey the aspects of change you most want to reveal through your writing.
Who Said by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Molly Sutton Kiefer reviews Jennifer Michael Hecht's Who Said today in Rumpus Poetry.
Ultramegaprairieland by Elisabeth Workman
Melissa-Leigh Gore reviews Elisabeth Workman's Ultramegaprairieland today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kara Candito
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kara Candito about goats, sexuality, Lorca, and slow writing in this chat about her book Spectator from the University of Utah Press.
This Last Time Will Be The First by Jeff Alessandrelli
Andrew Fulmer reviews Jeff Alessandrelli's This Last Time Will Be the First today in Rumpus Poetry.
Crowdsourced Poetry
Since May, poet David Lehman has been working on a crowdsourced sonnet over at The American Scholar. Lehman wrote the poem’s first line, and then chose the next 13 from…