poetry
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National Poetry Month Day 36: “The Lover’s Field Guide to Lesser Coinage” by Sandra Beasley
Was National Poetry Month over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! The Lover’s Field Guide to Lesser Coinage There are eight stycas in a penny, two pennies in a farthing, three farthings in a nearthing, and eight nearthings…
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National Poetry Month 2012 Lineup
So maybe you’re following our National Poetry Month project and you want to know who else is going to be featured. You’re following, right? I mean, sure you get the tweets from Rumpus Poetry and The Rumpus, and you regularly…
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The Poems of Jesus Christ, by Willis Barnstone
Born in 1927, Willis Barnstone is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Indiana University and an admired translator . His rendering of The Poems of St John of the Cross is rightly revered by believers, non believers, scholars and…
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National Poetry Month Day 35: “A Double Sestina on Happiness” by Cathy Park Hong
We decide when National Poetry Month is over. A Double Sestina on Happiness Part 1: I should never be happy, the Samsung Chairman’s eldest daughter Eunhee thought as she picked up a capsleeved dress in Seoul’s only Marni boutique, and…
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“Pachyderm”
Don’t miss this poem from Sherman Alexie’s forthcoming collection, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories. “Until he became an elephant, Sheldon referred to his left hand as ‘my hand’ and to his right hand as ‘my brother’s hand.’”
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Girl In Cap and Gown by Harriet Levin
Filmgoers this year who saw the documentary The Cave of Forgotten Dreams in 3-D (or not) entered the prehistoric Chauvet caves of Southern France in a stunning modern way. The labor to return to the stone womb felt transformative but…
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National Poetry Month Day 33: “Carpal Seeple” by Joyelle McSweeney
No tyrannical calendar will define National Poetry Month for us! Carpal Seeple I want to get Augustan pass the mustard make it matter make it
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National Poetry Month Day 32: “Zoo” by Virginia Konchan
We’re never satisfied with the thirty days that April allots us for National Poetry Month, so we’re extending it a bit. Enjoy! Zoo Unbridled, the sick pony traverses listlessly a circle.
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Gaze by Christopher Howell
In the opening poem of Christopher Howell’s Gaze, “Home Stretch,” he concludes with, “Receive me. Here are my silver / wings, in accordance with custom. Inside of them / leaves have been falling all these years.” And as readers, we…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Linda Hogan
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Linda Hogan about her poetry collection Indios.
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National Poetry Month Day 31: “Machine Song” by Bruce Snider
We’re never satisfied with just the 30 days that April offers for National Poetry Month, so we’re keeping it going for a little while longer. Machine Song I Xerox what I need to keep (a sheaf of papers, taxes, real…
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National Poetry Month Day 30: From “Sungone Noon” by Christian Wiman
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. From “Sungone Noon” One raised goats;