poetry
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The Rumpus Interview with Alice Mattison
Alice Mattison discusses her newest book, The Kite and the String, a meditation on her lifelong journey through the craft of writing, the joys of teaching writing, and the importance of community.
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Language Lesson and Surveillance by Ashaki M. Jackson
Kenji Liu reviews Ashaki M. Jackson’s Language Lesson and Surveillance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Banana Palace by Dana Levin
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Dana Levin’s Banana Palace today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rich Ferguson
Rich Ferguson discusses his debut novel New Jersey Me, moving to the Garden State from the South as a kid, and how music has influenced his writing.
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Where were you when the world broke?
Not in your echoing womb, to scream at you across your fields to wake up, not part of your denial that Earth is burning, dehydrated, suffocating on itself— I stood in a blue state while you bled the red of…
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Hemming Flames by Patricia Colleen Murphy
Sarah Pape reviews Patricia Colleen Murphy’s Hemming Flames today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat for Max Ritvo
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kaveh Akbar, Shon Arieh-Lerer, Justin Boening, Sarah Blake, and Ariella Ritvo-Slifka about Max Ritvo’s Four Reincarnations. Max Ritvo died on August 23, 2016.
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Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
Eric Farwell reviews Max Ritvo’s Four Reincarnations today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Native Poetry
Over at the North American Review, Heid E. Erdrich writes about the forthcoming New Poets of Native Nations. The collection, which will be published by Graywolf Press in 2018, will feature works from “21 poets whose first books were published…
