A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon
I found this text to be profound, relentless, frustrating, inspiring, demanding, silly, pompous, elastic, and mind-expanding. That is what poetry is for, and this is for poetry.
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Poetry and Politics
The Paris Review shares an interview with Pablo Neruda conducted in 1970 just before the poet withdrew his presidential candidacy. “I have never renounced the expression of loneliness, of anguish,…
National Poetry Month Day 19: “Mirror” by Rachel Richardson
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. Mirror All day I had…
National Poetry Month Day 18: “Skin Like Brick Dust” by Saeed Jones
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. Skin Like Brick Dust In…
Unless You Land in Dhaka
Ahmed’s roots construct a more nuanced Americana, as we follow Ahmed through the industrial American cities where she calls herself citizen (read: “free”), to her always-estranged returns to Dhaka.
National Poetry Month Day 17: “The Robot Scientist’s Daughter [brushes with death]” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
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. The Robot Scientist’s Daughter [brushes…
Happy Birthday Tracy K. Smith!
That’s one hell of a birthday present, there. A Pulitzer Prize! We’d like to point out that The Rumpus Poetry Book Club had an idea of just how awesome this…
National Poetry Month Day 16: “Big Legs On the Bus” by George Ducker
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. Big Legs on the Bus…
National Poetry Month Day 15: “Alternate Ending: My Grandmother As Gretel” by Kate Schmitt
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. Alternate Ending: My Grandmother As…
A National Poetry Month Special: “Bones” by Melissa Broder, Illustrated by Paul Tunis
When Paul Tunis emailed me and asked if I'd be interested in looking at a comic he'd drawn in collaboration with the poet Melissa Broder, my answer was an unequivocal yes.
I Have a Jaw That Seeks Chunks
In Melissa Broder’s second collection, Meat Heart, there is a burgeoning tension between the spiritual life of the imagination and its blood and guts container—the forehead, the hips, the heart—that…
National Poetry Month Day 14: “between the wolf and the dog” by Davis McCombs
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. between the wolf and the…