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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cameron Awkward-Rich
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Cameron Awkward-Rich about his new collection Dispatch (Persea, December 2019), what makes a love poem, elegies, and being groomed by cats. This is an edited...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Eric Tran’s The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer for The Rumpus...
I imagine the first question I’ll ask Eric Tran when we chat about his debut collection in early March is about the book’s title, because it has confused me since I opened my advance copy. “Gutter” is...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Danez Smith
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Danez Smith about their new collection Homie (Graywolf Press, January 2020), how winter can break you, the white gaze in art, and how violence can be an act of...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Mary-Kim Arnold’s The Fish & The Dove for The Rumpus Poetry Book...
My knowledge of the US military involvement in Korea from 1950–53 comes largely from watching M.A.S.H. reruns on channel 4 when I was a kid. I also know that according to the people for whom these...
View ArticleGet Your Signed Copy of Mother Winter Today!
An arresting memoir equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditation on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art that follows award-winning writer Sophia...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers about her new book The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons (Acre Books, March 2020), sonnet crowns, formal experimentation, the Mars rover,...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Ariel Francisco’s A Sinking Ship Is Still a Ship for the Rumpus...
Every so often, especially when the Midwest winter temperatures threaten to burst the bottom of the thermometer and create mercury-sicles, I think about moving back to south Florida, to the place my...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Eric Tran
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Eric Tran about his debut full-length collection The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer (Autumn House Press, March 2020), activating the spiritual through poetry,...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Heather McHugh’s Muddy Matterhorn for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I’m having a hard time writing anything right now. I want to say this has been going on for a month but it might only be a week or it might be the last decade. Time doesn’t make sense anymore because...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Mary-Kim Arnold
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Mary-Kim Arnold about her new collection The Fish & The Dove (Noemi Press, April 2020), launching a book in the middle of a pandemic, Semiramis,...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Thea Matthews’s Unearth [The Flowers] for the Rumpus Poetry Book...
When I write about poetry, I sometimes feel a responsibility to explicate the work—to act as a guide to the reader while acknowledging that my view is necessarily blinkered by my experiences and...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ariel Francisco
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Ariel Francisco about his new collection A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press April 2020), how its dual languages evoke the landscape its poems are set...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Benjamin Garcia’s Thrown in the Throat for the Rumpus Poetry...
Much will be written, I suspect, about the many identities that Benjamin Garcia explores in his debut collection, Thrown in the Throat, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions on August 11, and rightly so...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Heather McHugh
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Heather McHugh about her new collection Muddy Matterhorn (Copper Canyon Press, June 2020), anagrams, how to digest a decade, Mugwumps, and more. This is an...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Sumita Chakraborty’s Arrow for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I took up crochet last year as a way to both rehab the arm I’d shattered on ice-covered concrete the winter before and to pull myself away from social media. It’s a hobby that requires both hands and...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Thea Matthews
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with The Matthews about her new collection Unearth [The Flowers], finding inspiration in flowers, triumph over trauma, the brilliant bluntness of June Jordan, and...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Vijay Seshadri’s That Was Now, This Is Then for the Rumpus...
The title of Vijay Seshadri’s latest collection, That Was Now, This Is Then, lets readers know before we read the first poem that we’ll be working against the expected. That’s what good poetry can do;...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Benjamin Garcia
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Benjamin Garcia about his debut collection Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed, August 2020), how poems find their form, the size of Texas, trying to balance reading...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Molly Spencer’s Hinge for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I’ve been trying to get at what makes Molly Spencer’s poems so intriguing for a while now, but especially since I started reading Hinge, her second collection—though, as she points out in the...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sumita Chakraborty
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Sumita Chakraborty about her debut collection Arrow (Alice James Books, September 2020), how poems find their own form, the challenges of maintaining energy in...
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