poetry
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Poetry Series Suspended
UC California Press is facing cutbacks, and their New California Poetry series is taking the hit. The series, because each title sells only around 1,000 copies, has been suspended. Even after the semi-recent publication of The Autobiography of Mark Twain,…
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Even More Taboo Than Love
C. Dale Young uses this third book to address injustices, the divisions caused by pain, prejudice, and a fractured spirit.
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Like Algae on the Surface of Grace
There is a feeling of complicity in his [Dlugos’s] best poems in that he makes the reader love the burnished, tumultuous late nights and affection for those around him.
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The Poetry Book Club Interviews Harmony Holiday
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Harmony Holiday about her debut collection Negro League Baseball.
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Pump-up Poetry
How do you pump up before a game? Cheer? Chant? Talk some smack to the rival team? Or…do you read poetry? Bruno Biri, the coach of the French women’s national soccer team, finds his source of inspiration in literature, poetry…
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Perpetual Breaks of Strata
Rarely has a book of poetry offered such total, and carefully constructed immersion.
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The Trees The Trees
HTML Giant’s reviewing The Trees The Trees, which is a collection of poems by Heather Christle with twice the title you think it would have, and also not a Terrence Malick movie. The review in it of itself, is impressive…
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Why I Chose Lea Graham’s Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Book Club board member Sean Singer on why he chose Lea Graham’s Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You as the July selection for the club.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Rick” by Jericho Brown
Poets fall in love with poems all the time, so much so that the question “what poem did you love last” isn’t really a question, but an invitation to wax poetic about the current darling in your eye. Because the…
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The Unforgiving Cinderblock
Dunn doesn’t do dazzle, though he duly honors those whose large, obsessive stars have burned brightly.
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Lou Reed Does it Again
You’ve probably heard about Lou Reed’s multilayered Poe ventures which have taken on various artistic forms—a concept album, formerly a theater piece, and now a graphic novel. And that’s not all. The latest of his Edgar Allen Poe-themed projects is…
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New Issue of La Petite Zine
Ever read a poem about a tampon? La Petite Zine prides itself on its quirky and innovative subject matter as an online literary journal that defines itself, through what it is not, as “neither internet slop trough nor dainty hand-stitched timid…