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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Barbara Jane Reyes
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Barbara Jane Reyes about her new collection Invocation to Daughters (City Lights, November 2017), poly-vocality in poetry, the Tagalog term kapwa, and the...
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Why We Chose Eloisa Amezcua’s From the Inside Quietly for the Rumpus Poetry...
We’re excited to share that we’ll be reading Eloisa Amezcua’s debut collection, From the Inside Quietly, as our January Poetry Book Club selection! Ada Limón, author of Bright Dead Things, writes: A...
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Why I Chose Registers of Illuminated Villages for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
In the Notes section of Tarfia Faizullah’s second collection, Registers of Illuminated Villages, out in March from Graywolf Press, she writes that epigraph for the title poem wouldn’t exist without a...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sarah Blake
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Sarah Blake about her new collection Let’s Not Live on Earth, questions in poems, monsters, and the challenge of writing a dystopia. This is an edited transcript...
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Why I Chose Shara Lessley’s The Explosive Expert’s Wife for the Rumpus Poetry...
Ask anyone who grew up in an area that’s a tourist attraction—there are few things more annoying than a person visits and then claims to understand it as well as or better than a native. This is...
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Why I Chose Justin Phillip Reed’s Indecency for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
The word indecency often makes me think of the often disturbing relationship our culture has with sex and violence. Indecency is usually connected to the latter, as in indecent exposure or an indecent...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Tarfia Faizullah
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tarfia Faizullah about her new collection Registers of Illuminated Villages, mystery stories, the nature of evil, and mourning pages. This is an edited...
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Why I Chose Peter Mishler’s Fludde for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
The opening poem of Peter Mishler’s debut collection Fludde, forthcoming from Sarabande Books (and winner of the Kathryn A. Morton prize), is titled “Old World,” and the opening lines let us know that...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Shara Lessley
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Shara Lessley about her new collection The Explosive Expert’s Wife, the task of humanizing those we might dismiss as monsters, exoticizing Jordan, and writing...
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Why I Chose Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin...
Terrance Hayes’s new collection is made up of seventy sonnets written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency. But while some of the poems deal pretty clearly with the current...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Justin Phillip Reed
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Justin Phillip Reed about his debut collection, Indecency, why he loves struggling with connotation, and the way “not responsible” can morph into “irresponsible.”...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Katie Ford’s If You Have to Go for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
We’re very excited to share that we’ll be reading Katie Ford’s new collection, If You Have to Go, forthcoming from Graywolf Press on August 7, as our July Poetry Book Club selection! The poems in Katie...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Peter Mishler
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Peter Mishler about his debut collection, Fludde, the effect of ritual on poems, and childhood psychology. This is an edited transcript of the book club...
View ArticleWhy I Chose José Olivarez’s Citizen Illegal for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Usually this piece functions as a mini-review, a snapshot of the book I’ve chosen. But this month I’m not going to do that, not when Frank Johnson has already written an incredible review of José...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Terrance Hayes
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Terrance Hayes about his latest collection, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, playing Scrabble, and his attempt to define the “American” sonnet....
View ArticleWhy I Chose Kyle Dargan’s Anagnorisis for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Anagnorisis, for those of us not versed in ancient Greek theater (or black metal bands from Kentucky, as per Wikipedia), is a moment in a play when the hero suddenly realizes not just their situation,...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Katie Ford
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Katie Ford about her latest collection, If You Have to Go (August 2018, Graywolf Press), the role of theology in poetry, sonnets and sestinas, and earned...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Natasha Trethewey’s Monument for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I have admired Natasha Trethewey’s poetry since a friend in graduate school many years ago introduced me to her second book, Bellocq’s Ophelia, written in the voice of a mixed-race prostitute...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with José Olivarez
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with José Olivarez about his debut collection Citizen Illegal, cheese fries, gentrifiers of the imagination, and relationship weight. This is an edited transcript of...
View ArticleGet Your Signed Copy of Beth Bachmann’s CEASE!
Beth Bachmann’s new collection of poetry wildly upturns the boundaries between bodies at peace and bodies at war, between the human territory of border walls and the effects of war on the environment...
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