Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture by David Caplan
Charlotte Pence reviews David Caplan's Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Wolf Centos by Simone Muench
Julie Marie Wade reviews Simone Muench's Wolf Centos today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 9
Becoming a poet means writing past the danger each and every time you feel that you're struggling with writing a poem.
House and Fire by Maria Hummel
Laura Haynes reviews Maria Hummel's House on Fire today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Self Unstable by Elisa Gabbert
Brian Pera reviews Elisa Gabbert's The Self Unstable today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Saddest Poem Ever Written
A lot of poems are sad, but over at The Millions, Nick Ripatrazone thinks he’s found the saddest: “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Ripatrazone explores Hopkins’s poem, and…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Emily Abendroth
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Emily Abendroth about prison work, political poetry, and research in creative writing in her book ]exclosures[ from Ahsahta Press.
Loving Poems But Not Poetry Books
Although Americans’ love for poetry has yet to reach the wild heights of Abu Dhabi’s hit reality show Million’s Poet where 70 million global viewers watched dueling versifiers vie for…
140 Keystrokes
It’s hard to go a day without the question, does poetry matter? crop up somewhere, and if you’re in the mood for a longread, David Lehman has written an excellent…
Does Poetry Matter?
Yesterday’s New York Times posed this question to poetry superstars Tracy K. Smith, Martin Espada, William Logan, Paul Muldoon, Sandra Beasley, Patrick Rosal, and our own David Biespiel. Whether by…
The Poetry of Power Tools
Dan Piepenbring writes at the Paris Review about the universe inside industrial-supply catalogs, which offer a different kind of poetry to readers: And so I often reach for it in pursuit of a…
The Public Face of Poetry
Carol Muske-Dukes, a former poet laureate of California, discusses the role poetry plays in modern life at the Paris Review. She considers whether people think poetry is relevant or accessible,…