Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Thomas Farber Leland CheukAugust 12, 2021 “As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Last Book I Loved Poetry Rumpus Original The Last Poem I Loved: “The Hell Poem” by Shane McCrae Dana LevinMay 17, 2021 I’m fascinated that the speaker’s harm disappearing is a function of being in Hell.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Rites of Passage: Steven Toussaint’s Lay Studies Michael Angel MartínAugust 14, 2020 We are liturgical animals, Toussaint’s poems suggest, designed to satisfy some ultimate desire with worship.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Subtext Rising to the Surface: A Conversation with Matthew Olzmann Julie Marie WadeMarch 27, 2020 Poet Matthew Olzmann discusses his work with Julie Marie Wade.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original The Poem Remembers: A Conversation with David Baker Jonathan FarmerMay 24, 2019 David Baker discusses SWIFT: NEW & SELECTED POEMS.Read
Read Book Club Blog Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Katie Ford The Rumpus Book ClubAugust 28, 2018 Katie Ford discusses her new collection, IF YOU HAVE TO GO.Read
Read Poetry Rumpus Original Visitations: Gwendolyn Brooks at One Hundred Julie R. EnszerSeptember 12, 2017 A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.Read
Read Poetry Rumpus Original Radiant with Terror: Lowell and the Uncertain Country of Love Katie SchmidAugust 29, 2017 I found comfort in the way that Lowell’s poems frequently explore the landscape of mental illness and blur the lines between the self and the world.Read
Read Book Club Blog Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Nikki Wallschlaeger The Rumpus Book ClubJune 13, 2017 Nikki Wallschlaeger discusses her new collection Crawlspace, why she chose to work with the sonnet form, and how segregation in American never ended.Read
Read Poetry Rumpus Original David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 10): “The Gods” David BiespielApril 11, 2017 Poetic contemplation typically is a means to container experience, like a still life.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Shane McCrae Derek GromadzkiNovember 27, 2016 I think that the moment we’re living in offers the best opportunity we’ve had in a long time in that a lot of things having to do with identity politics are being talked about in poems.Read
Read Music Rick Moody Rumpus Original Swinging Modern Sounds #74: A Social Practice Rick MoodyAugust 25, 2016 Everywhere there is sterling musicianship, of the original, unexpected sort.Read