Walt Whitman
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Reading Whitman While White
It is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
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Misery Loves Company: A Conversation with Sarah J. Sloat
Sarah J. Sloat discusses her new collection of erasure poetry, HOTEL ALMIGHTY.
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Barbara Berman’s 2020 Holiday Poetry Shout-Out
Barbara Berman reviews four books in her 2020 Holiday Poetry Shout-Out
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Molly Spencer
Molly Spencer discusses her new collection, HINGE.
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The Lonesome Home: A Conversation with Aria Aber
Aria Aber discusses her debut poetry collection, HARD DAMAGE.
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The Joy of Play: Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces (10th Anniversary Ed.) by David Biespiel
Biespiel offers a number of best practices—not just for writing poems, but for living a creative life.
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A Metaphysical Inquiry: Nick Laird’s Feel Free
The work maintains a wondering backward, as it were, tracing the varied details of lived experience.
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Between Sex and Death: Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets
Survival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
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Turning and Turning: Jericho Brown’s The Tradition
[T]his is a book in direct conversation with literary tradition.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #196: Alan Chazaro
“[P]art of writing is cementing some sort of memory.”
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Making Absence Present: Save the Bathwater by Marina Carreira
Saudade is often translated as longing, and as with most translations, what gets left out matters.
