poetry
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Why I Chose Brenda Hillman’s Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I know I’m not supposed to dog-ear the pages of poetry books. It’s bad for the long-term health of the book. I know this. And yet, I’ve dog-eared more pages of Brenda Hillman’s Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire than I have…
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Joie de Vivre: Selected Poems 1992–2012 by Lisa Jarnot
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Lisa Jarnot’s Joie de Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012 today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The New York Comics Symposium: On Comics Poetry with Alexander Rothman, Paul Tunis, Gary Sullivan & Bianca Stone
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
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“I Never Intended Anyone to Read These ‘Poems’”
Previously, we blogged about a reading by Victoria Chang from her new poetry collection The Boss. Here’s a Q&A with Chang about that book, her approach to poetry, and her day job in the business world. An excerpt: I wrote these…
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Belmont by Stephen Burt
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Stephen Burt’s Belmont today in Rumpus Poetry.
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An August Rumpus Book Clubs Update
There’s still plenty of time to join in on the conversation on our August book club selections, Poe Ballantine’s Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere and Brenda Hillman’s Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire. You can sign…
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Notable New York: 08/05-08/11
MONDAY 08.05 Akashic Books takes over Books Beneath the Bridge for a night of noir from the 5 boroughs. On top of a chance to win their 5-Borough Noir Set there will be readings from Colson Whitehead, Kevin Baker, Binnie…
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In the Laurels, Caught by Lee Ann Brown
Sarah Sarai reviews Lee Ann Brown’s In the Laurels, Caught today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Desiring Map by Megan Kaminski
Brenda Sieczkowski reviews Megan Kaminski’s Desiring Map today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The McSweeney’s Poetry Series: Victoria Chang’s The Boss
On August 5th from 6 to 7 PM, McSweeney’s will be hosting a poetry reading with Matthew Zapruder and Victoria Chang. It will be held at SPUR on 654 Mission Street in SF. If you’re in the area, you should join…
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Listen to Sylvia Plath Read Her Poems Out Loud
Open Culture’s Josh Jones suggests listening to Sylvia Plath perform her poems out loud as a way to encounter them anew, “without the morbid celebrity baggage Plath’s name carries.” They do seem, in some ways, like completely different poems when…
