poetry
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Aesthetics and Poetics
Over at The Walrus, Michael Prior talks with poet Hoa Nguyen about the assessment of poetry, poetic communities in the US and Canada, and the role of silence and space in her own poetry: I see spacing as a way…
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Dated Emcees by Chinaka Hodge
Amanda Hildebrand reviews Chinaka Hodge’s Dated Emcees today in Rumpus Poetry.
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September in the Rumpus Book Club
This month, The Rumpus Book Club is reading Jade Chang’s debut novel, The Wangs vs. the World, which Jami Attenberg calls her “favorite debut of the year,” and of which Kirkus Reviews writes, “A Chinese-American family tumbles from riches to rags in Chang’s jam-packed, high-energy…
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How a Poet Tackles Today’s Violence
I’ll start again by telling you that this is a body. A body that bears the weight of its makers. A body that’s trying to tell a story, without making it pretty, but this is perhaps where poetry fails me,…
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Profitable Poetry
Rupi Kaur’s poetry collection, Milk and Honey, has sold almost half a million copies since its publication by Andrews McMeel Publishing last year, according to Anisse Gross in Publishers Weekly. While that is the company’s best selling poetry collection, it isn’t…
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Brawl & Jag by April Bernard
Brian McKenna reviews April Bernard’s Brawl & Jag today in Rumpus Poetry.
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What Condition Is Your Condition In?
What are the possible causes of my symptoms or condition. What tests do you recommend for the heartache of loving both those boys later on–in different years, for different years– for thinking you’d loved with a love that was more…
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The Rumpus Interview With Alejandro Zambra
Alejandro Zambra discusses his latest book, Multiple Choice, inspired by the Chilean exam administered to students seeking college admission
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Swinging Modern Sounds #74: A Social Practice
Everywhere there is sterling musicianship, of the original, unexpected sort.
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Manual For Living by Sharon Dolin
Matthew Hittinger reviews Sharon Dolin’s Manual for Living today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with David Rivard
David Rivard discusses his new collection Standoff, writing as both a public and private act, the interiority of reading, and Pokémon GO.
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Save Langston Hughes’s Harlem Home
Award-winning author Renée Watson is fighting to save the house that Langston Hughes lived in through much of the 1950s and 60s, until his death in 1967, Heather Long reports for CNN. Watson launched an Indiegogo campaign to rescue the brownstone and…