Why We Chose Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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What We Need: Juan Felipe Herrera, Maw Shein Win, and John Freeman
Barbara Berman reviews Every Day We Get More Illegal, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, and The Park.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Monica Prince
our future / will be temporary, on this temporal / planet
Any Moment Is a Door: Nadia Colburn’s The High Shelf
Again, the red door stands open, allowing the world to enter.
The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Rosanna Warren
“Any good poem has form and acts out its meanings in form.”
Beloved Names and Incantatory Powers: heidi andrea restrepo rhodes’s The Inheritance of Haunting
And so it is an exorcism, yes, but also a song.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joumana Altallal
The metal of the body, the city’s sudden chill.
The Sound of Beginning: Birthright by George Abraham
These poems present a challenge to the typically imposed strictures of ownership, narrative, and solution.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Visual Poems by David Joez Villaverde
Can this really still be my dream?
Identity as a Hall of Mirrors: Descent by Lauren Russell
This book is a marriage of the real world and the imagination, the nexus of nonfiction and fiction.
To Make Some Beauty: Talking with brian g. gilmore
Poet brian g. gilmore discusses his newest collection, COME SEE ABOUT ME, MARVIN.