Why We Chose Kimberly Grey’s Systems for the Future of Feeling for the Rumpus...
One of the most valuable things I’ve learned about being a writer is that no one writes on their own. We all collaborate. I’m talking not only about the ways we gather ideas from the world around us,...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Vijay Seshadri
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Vijay Seshadri about his latest collection That Was Now, This Is Then (Graywolf Press, October 2020), obsolescence in poems, submitting to the human condition,...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse for the...
I have a pet peeve I want to talk about for a minute. So often, especially on social media but also in other forums, I see people respond to poems whose subject touches on identity by calling them...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Molly Spencer
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Molly Spencer about her new collection, Hinge (SIU Press, October 2020), long roads to publication, fairy tales, writing while parenting, and more. This is an...
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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...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Erin Belieu’s Come-Hither Honeycomb for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
It’s probably because this is the holiday season and the end of the semester and a “break” looms in the near distance that I’m feeling the effects of the current pandemic more than usual lately. The...
View ArticleFlash Sale: Rumpus Subscription Programs!
Still have some names to cross off on your holiday gift lists? Our subscription programs make a perfect gift for all the readers and writers in your life! Today and tomorrow, 6-month Book Club...
View ArticleFlash Sale: Rumpus Subscription Programs!
Still have some names to cross off on your holiday gift lists? Our subscription programs make a perfect last-minute present! Today and tomorrow, 6-month Book Club subscriptions are $210 and 6-month...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kimberly Grey
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kimberly Grey about her collection Systems for the Future of Feeling (Persea Books, December 2020), the challenges of writing about grief, Anne Carson energy, how...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Adrienne Christian’s Worn for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Adrienne Christian’s third collection, Worn—out from Sante Fe Writers Project on April 1 but available to our Poetry Book Club members in just a few weeks—is really a community of poems. There are...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with torrin greathouse
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with torrin greathouse about her new collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, December 2020), inventing forms, revenge poems, how the pandemic...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Threa Almontaser’s The Wild Fox of Yemen for the Rumpus Poetry...
For as long as I’ve been around the study of poetry and creative writing, I’ve heard a constant call to make poetry more challenging for the reader, to make it denser or more disjunctive, to move away...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s Water I Won’t Touch for The Rumpus Poetry...
In their citation selecting Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s first book, What Runs Over, for the 2019 Whiting Award in Poetry, the selection committee calls the book a “verse memoir,” which is interesting to me...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erin Belieu
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Erin Belieu about her new collection Come-Hither Honeycomb (Copper Canyon Press, February 2020), multiplicity in language, middle-aged bodies, publicly judging...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Adrienne Christian
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Adrienne Christian about her new collection Worn (Santa Fe Writers Project, April 2021), the ghazal form, seeing yourself in your communities, and using...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Andrés Cerpa’s The Vault for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
We’ve all experienced, I hope, the sense of reading a book of poems that feels perfect for a specific moment, as though it had been written in response to what we’re going through right now. There’s a...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Threa Almontaser
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Threa Almontaser about her debut collection The Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press, April 2021), the challenges of translation, the right of coffee, how mishearing...
View ArticleWhy We Chose The Monster I Am Today by Kevin Simmonds for The Rumpus Poetry...
I have to admit, I approached this book with some uncertainty; I know very little about opera generally or Leontyne Price specifically. Now I get to thank Kevin Simmonds for not only opening those...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kayleb Rae Candrilli
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kayleb Rae Candrilli about their new collection Water I Won’t Touch (Copper Canyon Press, April 2021), the seriousness of love poems, normalcy, a creation...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Kaveh Akbar’s Pilgrim Bell for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
When I first sat down with Pilgrim Bell, forthcoming from Graywolf Press on August 3 but available to our Poetry Book Club members in just a few weeks, I looked for a definition or description of a...
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