poetry
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A Neon Tryst by Lina Vitkauskas
Virginia Konchan reviews Lina Vitkauskas’s Neon Tryst today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Collected Poems by Ron Padgett
Andrew Field reviews Ron Padgett’s Collected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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 window clutching its prize. The poem ends with a lovely…
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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 say intrigued, but in my heart it felt more like…
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The Next Monsters by Julie Doxsee
Kent Shaw reviews Julie Doxsee’s The Next Monsters today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Autogeography by Reginald Harris
Sean Singer reviews Reginald Harris’s Autogeography today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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.
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Mutability: Scripts for Infancy by Andrea Brady
Asheigh Lambert reviews Andrea Brady’s Mutability: Scripts for Infancy today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Poems from the South Pole
In a recent post about newly discovered undeveloped photos of a Shackleton expedition to Antarctica 100 years ago, we mentioned that Riverhead Books publicity director Jynne Dilling Martin is currently an artist-in-residence in Antarctica, and that she had written a…
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The Rumpus Interview with Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood, poet and author of the infamous “Rape Joke,” talks about her book Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s influence on her writing, and what fame means for poets in the age of social media.
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The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
Weston Cutter reviews Adrian Matejka’s The Big Smoke today in Rumpus Poetry.
