The Rumpus
Interview with Richard Blanco: Look at the lives of poets, each of their journeys is unique—and makes their poetry unique.
Interview with Richard Blanco: Look at the lives of poets, each of their journeys is unique—and makes their poetry unique.
Read Solmaz Sharif’s poem “Now What” up at The Academy of American Poets: My materialist mind, I can’t / shake it.
Review of Carolyn Forche’s What You Have Heard is True: “only a poet has the language to bear witness.”
Congratulations to Marcelo Hernandez Castillo winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award for Cenzontle!
Review of Jericho Brown’s The Tradition: Brown’s poems revel in the curiosities of their mythmaking and are self-confrontational in their gaze.
Congratulations to Jericho Brown on the release of his poetry collection The Tradition!
Richard Blanco’s How to Love a Country included on Penguin Random House’s list of 2019 Common Reads!
Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets included on Bustle’s list of 13 New Poetry Collections You Need to Read This Spring.
Natasha Trethewey and Claudia Rankine among 2019 newly elected Arts Academy inductees.
Listen to Craig Morgan Teicher and Kevin Young read Forrest Gander’s poem “Son.”