You Tell Me Its Underpinnings
Davis maintains a deep engagement with, and investigation of, the world around her. She is able to immerse herself in the newness of things by seeing them through children’s eyes,…
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The Memory of a Coin
Alliterative poems dually titled with different years provide each of the book’s two parts with bones to an otherwise fleshless narrative. Placed upon the page like fossils for an extinct…
Why I Chose T. R. Hummer’s Ephemeron for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Brian Spears on why he chose T. R. Hummer’s Ephemeron as the November selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
“The Translators,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Joshua Edwards
THE TRANSLATORS After reading about Caesar And Pompey, we searched Until we found a nearly perfect Antique plate. Speaking
Man, Wall, Sea
Working with his father, Joshua Edwards has also created an intriguingly masculine book. The collection presents father and son’s perspectives on an American landscape molded and scarred by men.
The Slow Urgency of Drowning
Stacie Leatherman weaves lush metaphors and imagery that drifts and flakes, and is riddled with earthly abundance, colors, and dust. Her writing is sensory, and her voice and syntax trick…
The Last Poem I Loved: “Nothing Twice” by Wislawa Szymborska
The last poem I loved was “Nothing Twice” by the well-known Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska. I loved all of her poems that followed, but “Nothing Twice” was the first Szymborska…
The Night is a God’s Wound
This [collection] is a rare effort to “open the window” for western readers onto the last fifty years of Chinese poetics.
“WalMart Supercenter,” A Rumpus Original Poem by Erika Meitner
WalMart Supercenter God Bless America says the bumper sticker on the racer-red Rascal scooter that accidentally cuts me off in the Walmart parking lot after a guy in a tricked…
The Force That Drives All Flesh
Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls is a case study for how to observe, recall and (possibly) create from whole cloth with clarity that never becomes brittle.
Everything Tastes Better When It’s Precious
[An] unrequited love of language is demonstrated throughout The Hermit, as the speakers of the poems seem to continually give and love openly, but are often left hurting or alone—left to their prisons.
Looking for Hymns of Seizure
There is some of Rilke’s spiritual longing in Basil, expressed most frequently through agonizing bodies and food.