poetry
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It Has To Do With Attention
Q: What is the difference between a poem and a cloud? A: Not very much, according to the poet Mary Ruefle in this (delightful) interview, found in Music & Literature: The clouds are written to us, as we are the only ones to receive…
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The Poetry Archive Anew
Poetryarchive.org, the online poetry resource founded by retired British poet laureate Andrew Motion and the recording producer Richard Carrington a decade ago, has just been relaunched. In the Guardian, Motion talks about the origins of the website and it new redesign: Our original…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Cliches are something every writer has to deal with at some point. This weekend, Steve Edwards acknowledges the cliché and comes to something of a reckoning. Edwards declares: That’s how the heart works—it doesn’t give a shit about what it’s…
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Where I Write #27: Now In Silence, Mute
Now in silence, mute, a place still quiet/within reason, ear-protected, I hear/the flow and pump of blood.
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The Pedestrians by Rachel Zucker
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Rachel Zucker’s the pedestrians today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Feel Trio by Fred Moten
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Fred Moten’s The Feel Trio today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Lightning and Lawn Debris
No spoilers here, but Patricia Lockwood’s new poetry collection Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals is garnering significant praise. In the New York Times, Dwight Garner writes that: Patricia Lockwood’s sexy, surreal and mostly sublime poems seem to have been, as James Joyce said in…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Keetje Kuipers
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Keetje Kuipers about her new book The Keys to the Jail, alter egos, landscapes, political poems, and how the fictionalized and the real inhabit the same space.
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21st Century Poetry Written in 1964
The 50th anniversary edition of Lunch Poems, the collection written by Frank O’Hara in 1964, has caught attention recently over at The Atlantic. The book has always been important to New Yorkers, and evidently it still is—in 2012, it was…
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The Glacier’s Wake by Katy Didden
Nick Morrissey reviews Katy Didden’s The Glacier’s Wake today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Pictures Made from a Thousand Words
“Art-typing,” or using a typewriter to create visual art, first stemmed from experimenting stenographers and then blossomed in the 1950s with the concrete poetry movement. A new anthology, Typewriter Art, looks at the history of this form. Brainpickings has a…
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Remembering the Blue and the Gray
Memorial Day is a time of both national reflection and diverse local tradition. In a piece connecting poetry and community storytelling, The Atlantic offers some literary history in observance of this past weekend’s holiday. Two years after the end of…