A Poetics of Questions: The Bower by Connie Voisine
To learn is perhaps Voisine’s primary goal in writing the poems in The Bower.
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...moreCourtney Maum shares a reading list to celebrate BEFORE AND AFTER THE BOOK DEAL.
...moreA selection of AWP 2020 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
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...moreRumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
...moreRumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to challenge traditional views of motherhood!
...moreRumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month!
...moreSheila Heti discusses her new novel, MOTHERHOOD!
...moreA list of books that wrangle, directly or indirectly, with motherhood and all that comes with it (or its absence).
...moreSaturday 11/26: Sarah Kay, Maeve Higgins, Phil Kaye, and Mark Doss read for refugees, as part of the Festival to Improve the World. The Wild Project, 4 p.m., $10. Monday 11/28: Jason Diamond launches Searching for John Hughes with a conversation with Danielle Henderson. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. David Rivard and Sarah Sarai join the […]
...moreArielle Greenberg talks about her new collection, Locally Made Panties, the possibility of feminist pornography, and curating her Rumpus column, (K)ink: Writing While Deviant.
...moreElisa Albert discusses her new novel, After Birth, postpartum depression, childbearing, and the misogyny of modern medicine in pathologizing the normal processes of birth and the female body.
...moreIn Episode 4 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick sits down with poet Rachel Zucker to talk about her latest collection, The Pedestrians, what makes for good comedy, and word associations.
...morethis poem’s possibly timely / not likely timeless which someone once said / separates poetry from the pedestrian
...moreCliches are something every writer has to deal with at some point. This weekend, Steve Edwards acknowledges the cliché and comes to something of a reckoning. Edwards declares: That’s how the heart works—it doesn’t give a shit about what it’s supposed to feel, it just feels. Using the context of a failed marriage, Edwards shows […]
...moreJeannine Hall Gailey reviews Rachel Zucker’s the pedestrians today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreSaturday 3/22: Ariel Gore reads from her new memoir, The End of Eve (February 2014). Bluestockings, 7 p.m., free. Rob Halpern and Ann Lauterbach join the Segue Series. Halpern’s collection Common Place is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. Segue Series, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 3/23: Nathaniel Popkin, Melvin Bukiet and Liesl Schillinger perform a tribute […]
...moreThis week in New York, BookExpo America (BEA) kicks off, and this year with a new feature: New York Book Week–events that are open to the public. Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) discusses and serves up cocktails, Timothy Donnelly and Matthew Rohrer read, Melissa Auf der Maur performs, Al Maysles and DA Pennebaker talk documentaries, […]
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