A Smidge of Confusion, A Glow of Fear
Vogelsang is sometimes so restless its hard not to wonder how and when he sleeps, and he makes the reader confront the question of whether sleep, or any kind of…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Joseph Harrington
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club interviews Joseph Harrington about his recent collection Things Come On.
National Poetry Month Day 7: “Jack Gilbert” by P. Scott Cunningham
Jack Gilbert Love is everything though of course, love dies leaving you in agony and then you die and worms crawl in and out of your skull.
Poor Little Poughkeepsie
The affection Joshua Harmon has for Poughkeepsie is the kind one might have for an alcoholic uncle or an abusive neighbor who occasionally tells good stories. The only love here…
National Poetry Month Day 6: “Certain Slant” by T. R. Hummer
Certain Slant Concertina music breaks its foam on the haberdashery window, a murder ballad so old even the monkey knows the words
National Poetry Month Day 5: “The Great Wave” by Barbara Jane Reyes
The Great Wave After Hokusai First, the sea took the shore. She surged and sucked up the sand and gravel, all the soil and clay. She plucked twisted trees from…
The Rumpus Interview with Daphne Gottlieb
Daphne Gottlieb is a badass, who released her fifth collection of poetry on April 1, 2011. She is the winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for her book…
British Prisoners Take Poetry Seriously
I don’t know what I love most about this story from Britain. British prisoners are outraged because a fellow prisoner won second prize in a poetry contest by entering a…
National Poetry Month, Day 2: “The Starving Saint” by Sandy Longhorn
The Starving Saint Encased in silver, the feet of the saint crack and splinter in the first hard frost.
Leopardi, to the Moon
A concise and erudite presentation of and meditation on the complex and solitary figure of Leopardi, it is also an exploration of the major themes and forms of the poems…
And Then Lapsed Ordinary
I found myself intrigued by all of the energy surrounding what people seem to be calling a renewed energy in Heaney’s work.
You Know Butterflies’ Semaphore Graces It
Why We Make Gardens abounds with… lyricism and in doing so may serve as explanation. We make gardens and poems and art to achieve gentle charms of word and life.