poetry
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Interrobang by Jessica Piazza
Melissa-Leigh Gore reviews Jessica Piazza’s Interrobang today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Hands In Bleach
A classic Annie Dilliard-ism; “The way you spend your days/is the way you spend your life.” In the latest Oxford American, Southern poet Rebecca Gayle Howard—guest editor of the OA summer issue—talks about her writing process and how she spends her days:…
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The Sins of the Father
Lord Byron’s estranged daughter, Lady Ada Lovelace, was just as swashbuckling and as tragic as her father. She was also a card shark, drug addict, and computer genius.
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When I Was Straight by Julie Marie Wade
Julie Enszer reviews Julie Marie Wade’s When I Was Straight today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Somebody Who Has Found the Words
Recently in the UK, poetry seems to have found its way back into mainstream culture, which of course elicits the question: did it ever leave? Over at Newsweek, Howard Swains examines the reasons we return to poetry even in an…
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The Last Book of Poems I Loved: Sleeping With the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
No one writes poems like [Harryette] Mullen. And if Mullen’s poems teach us anything about the larger context of making poems, the lesson might be that no one should write poems like her.
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American Chew by Matthew Lippman
Michael Klein reviews Matthew Lippman’s American Chew today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Where I Write #28: A Small Bench Between Two 25-Story Buildings
I was doing clerical work for a magazine publisher in a high-rise along the Wilshire corridor and each day I would take my one hour lunch on a small bench between two 25 story buildings. The proximity of all these…
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Chapman Commencement Speech (Shed That Skin)
When you want to turn your world upside down and see what falls out of it, shed that skin.
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In the Low Houses by Heather Dobbins
Caitlin Mackenzie reviews Heather Dobbins’s In the Low Houses today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekly Geekery
Albert Einstein: When science and celebrity, story and physics collide. Social media isn’t taking over book time, social media is taking over TV time, and that’s okay. The science of capturing death in plaster. Google writes poetry to its computer. Is…
