Breaking Out of the “Reservation of My Mind”
Sherman Alexie always loved to read, but it never occurred to him that he—or any other Native American, for that matter—could become a writer. That all changed when he read…
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He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs by Leonard Gontarek
A. V. Christie reviews Leonard Gontarek's He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs today in Rumpus Poetry.
X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess
Rebecca Hazelton reviews X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess today in Rumpus Poetry.
Render / An Apocalypse by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Roberto Carlos Garcia reviews Rebecca Gayle Howell's Render: An Apocalypse today in Rumpus Poetry.
Tender: A quarterly journal made by women
Tender is a brand new “quarterly journal made by women” edited in the United Kingdom. The Quietus recently talked to Tender’s two founders, Sophie Collins and Rachael Allen, about the chosen…
The Silence of Doorways by Sharon Venezio
Lisa Cheby reviews Sharon Venezio's The Silence of Doorways today in Rumpus Poetry.
Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil
Diego Báez reviews Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Poetry Shutdown Begins – Poets and Critics Fail to Agree
A flurry of last-minute phone calls, philippics, tweets, and Facebook posts by poets and critics late last night failed to break a bitter standoff over the latest poetry-is-dead attacks, setting…
Life Cycle by Dena Rash Guzman
Ryan Werner reviews Dena Rash Guzman's Life Cycle today in Rumpus Poetry.
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I recently discovered a fascinating cookbook: Rufus Estes’ Good Things To Eat. Written in 1911, this cookbook is the first ever written by an African-American chef. Born a slave, Estes…
Palimpsest by Kristina Marie Darling
Anne Champion reviews Kristina Marie Darling's Palimpsest today in Rumpus Poetry.
Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene
Barbara Berman reviews Dana Greene's Denise Levertov: A Poet's LIfe today in Rumpus Poetry.