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In Search of Free Union
Free Union is much more than a small Virginia town. It is also the choice involved; the choice to go back to the land, the choice to settle with a partner, father children, and find both comfort and...
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A Vowel Away From Master
These poems often resist the reader in the same way his speaker resists his father, but the book’s exploration of such distance creates a closeness between the reader and the poems, and the speaker...
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The Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with Kara Candito
How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry...
View ArticleNational Poetry Month Day 8: “Ghosts Keep Us Moving, Stella Said, Think About...
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April.Ghost Keep Us Moving, Stella Said, ThinkAbout a Field at Night,...
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Making’s Progress; or, A Defense of Poetry
Just over a year ago Farrar, Straus, and Giroux’s president and publisher, Jonathan Galassi, interviewed Gjertrud Schnackenberg, whose sixth book, Heavenly Questions came off FSG’s press about a year...
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The Saints of Streets by Luisa Igloria
Yours in Words: An Epistolary Review of Luisa A Igloria’s The Saints of Streets.02/08/146:34 AMDear Luisa,I have just finished your latest book The Saints of Streets, and find I can’t close the book...
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How to Dance as the Roof Caves In by Nick Lantz
It’s 2014. We’re past the year Marty McFly dialed in to his Back to the Future Delorean. We’ve survived Y2K. We’re aware Monsanto owns all the corn we can eat. And the housing bubble burst is still...
View ArticleNational Poetry Month Day 25: “Poem For Her In Time” by Christian Anton Gerard
Poem For Her In Time–After Her and Wallace StevensI.Thirteen days. This morning I counted,read Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.She said, I like to hold you this way and thisway and this way....
View ArticleWeekend Rumpus Roundup
For National Poetry Month Days 25 & 26, Christian Anton Gerard and Ada Limon provide us with poems of love and luck.Then, Sean Donovan has good things to say in his Saturday Review of the film It...
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Blood Flower by Pamela Uschuk
“How slow the aftershock of memory, the stink / of fingertips charred by the stark / yap of amped volts sparking / our parents’ angry screams at our stupidity / when we ran to them for help,” writes...
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The Way That Poetry Works: Holdfast by Christian Anton Gerard
In Making Your Own Days, Kenneth Koch writes of poetry not as one of the ways in which language is used but as a separate and distinct language in and of itself. Through this language, one does not...
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
In our 2018 staff picks feature, Poetry Editor Molly Spencer wrote: Reviews make us better readers (and better writers) by putting words to something we, as reader, sensed about a book, but couldn’t...
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Both/And: Republic Café by David Biespiel
David Biespiel’s sixth and latest book of poems, Republic Café, should be within your reach as soon as you can make it happen. The book shouldn’t be placed in between others on your bookshelf or in...
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
In her review of Stephanie Strickland’s How the Universe Is Made, Rumpus contributor and book reviewer Julie Marie Wade writes: A review, after all, isn’t a book report (mostly summative) or an...
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