Why We Chose Marwa Helal’s Invasive species for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
We’re thrilled to share that we’ll be reading Marwa Helal’s debut full-length collection, Invasive species, forthcoming from Nightboat Books on January 1, as our November Poetry Book Club selection!...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kyle Dargan
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kyle Dargan about his most recent collection Anagnorisis, middle class comforts, exploited labor, and the value of doing the work of poetry. This is an edited...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Sally Wen Mao’s Oculus for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
In the poem “Ghost in the Shell,” which opens the penultimate section of Sally Wen Mao’s Oculus, is the line “Before everything was stolen, our lives were ours.” As the note for the poem explains,...
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Black Friday Sale and Rumpus Holiday Gifts!
This holiday season, give the gift of The Rumpus! We have plenty of holiday gift options for the bookworms and writers in your life, and we’re kicking the season off with a Black Friday sale offering...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Natasha Trethewey
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Natasha Trethewey about her most recent collection Monument: Poems New and Selected, Southern history, how craft can help a writer attack difficult material, and...
View ArticleFlash Sale: Rumpus Subscription Programs
Today and tomorrow, 6-month Book Club subscriptions are $165 and 6-month Poetry Book Club subscriptions are $148! Annual Letters in the Mail are $55 (domestic) and $94 (international) and annual...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Hala Alyan’s The Twenty-Ninth Year for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
This is a slippery book, filled with slippery poems. My experience with books that delve as deeply into trauma as The Twenty-Ninth Year does is that they usually provide something stable for the reader...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Marwa Helal
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Marwa Helal about her debut collection Invasive species, how the book found its structure, and the feelings of displacement that accompany immigration. This is an...
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State of The Rumpus
Last January I wrote this piece about my first year at the helm of The Rumpus. Reading it now, it feels impossible only a year has passed and also like I wrote it just yesterday. 2018 was a harder year...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
The opening poem of Ilya Kaminsky’s second collection, Deaf Republic, is titled “We Lived Happily During the War.” That title also serves as the opening line of the poem, and this the opening line of...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sally Wen Mao
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Sally Wen Mao about her latest collection Oculus (Graywolf, January 2019), yellow face in film, and finding hope in the face of the history of discrimination....
View ArticleWhy I Chose Franny Choi’s Soft Science for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
The term “soft science” is, in my experience, usually used in a derogatory way, whether talking about the sciences themselves or about science fiction. In the sciences, the term has been used to...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Hala Alyan
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Hala Alyan about her latest collection The Twenty-Ninth Year (Mariner Books, January 2019), memory and truth and where they intertwine, and how place becomes a...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s Lima :: Limón for the Rumpus Poetry...
I want to preface this piece by noting that I do not speak or read Spanish, and that translation is a tricky thing even for people with an intimate knowledge of the languages they are moving between. I...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ilya Kaminsky
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Ilya Kaminsky about his latest collection Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, March 2019), This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. Every month the...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Eve L. Ewing’s 1919 for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
At this point, it’s fair to question whether or not Eve Ewing sleeps. 1919 is her third book published since 2017, coming on the heels of Electric Arches, her debut poetry collection, and Ghosts in the...
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
It’s no secret that at The Rumpus, we love us some poetry, which makes April one of our favorite months of the year! And, just in case sharing thirty thrilling new poems with you each day throughout...
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Odes to Lithium
We are thrilled to bring you this exclusive first look at the cover of Shira Erlichman’s debut full-length collection, Odes to Lithium, forthcoming from Alice James Books on September 17. We’re also...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Franny Choi
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Franny Choi about her latest collection, Soft Science (Alice James Books, April 2019), cyborgs, post-humanism, and the mundanity of Internet nudity. This is an...
View ArticleWhy I Chose t’ai freedom ford’s & more black for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
The first question you might ask when you pick up t’ai freedom ford’s forthcoming collection from Augury Books is: Where do I start? It’s a double-sided collection, both sides forty-six pages long, and...
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