Poetry Is Useful—Or At Least It Can Be
Poetry is always already revolutionary, then. What it says hardly matters. Poetry is useful because of its useless essence, not because of its individual meaning. Of course, this is nonsense.…
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Beyond the Chainlink by Rusty Morrison
Dan Shewan reviews Rusty Morrison's Beyond the Chainlink today in Rumpus Poetry.
What We Ask of Flesh by Remica Bingham
Damon Marbut reviews Remica Bingham's What We Ask of Flesh today in Rumpus Poetry.
Meridian by Kathleen Jesme
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Kathleen Jesme's Meridian today in Rumpus Poetry.
A Neon Tryst by Lina Vitkauskas
Virginia Konchan reviews Lina Vitkauskas's Neon Tryst today in Rumpus Poetry.
Collected Poems by Ron Padgett
Andrew Field reviews Ron Padgett's Collected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Last Book of Poems I Loved: Memory by Laura Jensen
Laura Jensen’s Memory begins with the eponymous poem about a falconer, whose falcon flies after its prey and doesn’t return until evening, surprising its master when it lands in the…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Something More Than Style
Earlier this week, while speaking to some younger poets, I became intrigued with their nascent fascination, to the point of headiness, with all things poetically elliptical, non-linear, and disjunctive. I…
The Next Monsters by Julie Doxsee
Kent Shaw reviews Julie Doxsee's The Next Monsters today in Rumpus Poetry.
Autogeography by Reginald Harris
Sean Singer reviews Reginald Harris's Autogeography today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Interview with Rich Villar
Poet Rich Villar discusses his activism, his admiration for Pablo Neruda, the importance of vernacular, and why love poetry may be the most political poetry of all.