poetry
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Bob Holman’s Most Poetic NYC Spots
Bob Holman, one of the few living poets of the NYC beat poetry era, former co-director of the Nuyorican Poets Café and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, has curated a list of NYC’s most “poetic” places for the New…
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Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal
Trista Edwards reviews Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Mayakovsky’s Revolver by Matthew Dickman
Brachah Goykadosh reviews Matthew Dickman’s Mayakovsky’s Revolver today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Camille Guthrie
This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with Camille Guthrie.
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Lectures I Will Never Give
My take on it is, we should be suspicious of everything that IS called a masterpiece.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Revising Poetry Just Got Easier
Revision, as classically understood, generally relates to the poet’s understanding while composing a poem, via kneading language, via discovering insight. More and more though I find that sort of revision is only part of the problem, if it is a…
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Thank You For the Window Office by Maged Zaher
Gina Myers reviews Maged Zaher’s Thank You For the Window Office today in Rumpus Books.
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The Emily Dickinson Reader by Paul Legault
At their best, love and translation share some contradictions, including selfishness and generosity. Translation is impossible, or at least not very good, without a passionate desire to own the material and leave one’s mark on it. At the same time,…
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The Moon and Other Inventions: Poems after Joseph Cornell by Kristina Marie Darling
Marisa Siegel reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s The Moon & Other Inventions today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Fair Copy by Rebecca Hazelton
Tory Adkisson reviews Fair Copy by Rebecca Hazelton today in Rumpus Poetry.
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New Shoes on a Dead Horse by Sierra DeMulder
Winning just about every national poetry slam competition there is, Sierra DeMulder’s words and poetic swagger have won untouchable real estate in my bookshelf. DeMulder’s newest book, New Shoes on a Dead Horse re-defines confessional poetry; in fact, it pushes…
