The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jeffrey Pethybridge
Jeffrey Pethybridge discusses his collection, Striven, The Bright Treatise, with The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
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To See the Queen by Allison Seay
Sally Rosen Kindred reviews Allison Seay's To See the Queen today in Rumpus Poetry.
From Computer Geek to Children’s Poet Laureate
Children’s poetry is typically not more than one page or two pages long. And yet, within that one or two pages, kids can get a really strong positive emotional response…
Notable New York: 06/17-06/23
Tuesday 06/18: The Bushwick Book Club does Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers. If you haven’t seen this series where musicians reinterpret…
Poems Retrieved by Frank O’Hara
Barbara Berman reviews Fraonk O'Hara's Poems retrieved today in Rumpus Poetry.
Poems with Some Spine
Nina Katchadourian makes curious and compelling art in a variety of different mediums, but perhaps her most interesting project—to book nerds, at least—is Sorted Books, an ongoing series of photographs…
I Did Not Vanish: On Writing
But writing poems allows me mastery over a miniature universe. For those moments or hours, I am God of my kingdom. No one tells me how things go. No one can argue against me when I’m writing poems. When I am writing, I get to speak.
Turkish Poem Takes On Prophetic Tone
My leaves are my eyes, I look in amazement I watch you with one hundred thousand eyes, I watch Istanbul Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet Ran wrote those words about a tree…
Hurrah’s Nest by Arisa White
Gina Vaynshteyn reviews Arisa White's Hurrah's Nest today in Rumpus Poetry.
FUNNY WOMEN #102: How to Read a Poem
One misconception people have about poetry is that it is written in “code,” one they aren’t smart enough to understand. In fact, if you do not comprehend a poem, you may return it.
Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine by Jesse Graves
Heather Dobbins reviews Jesse Graves's Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine today in Rumpus Poetry.
Samsara by Erica Anzalone
Karissa Morton reviews Erica Anzalone's Samsara today in Rumpus Poetry.