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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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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...
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Notable Online: 10/4–10/10
Sunday 10/4: Lee Child, Salman Rushdie, Mia Couto, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Joyce Carol Oates, Adrian Tomine, Emily St. John Mandel, Claudia Rankine, Marie Lu, Colson Whitehead, and many more join the...
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Barbara Berman’s 2020 Holiday Poetry Shout-Out
In keeping with Rumpus tradition, Barbara Berman reviews four new collections of poetry and books on poetics that would be perfect for any reader on your holiday shopping list—or for yourself. And...
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What to Read When Nature Calls
You want nothing more than to go outside and breath fresh air, but instead you’re stuck inside, days filled with Zoom meetings and assisting your eleven-year-old to simplify fractions and arranging...
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Notable Online: 3/21–3/27
Monday 3/22: Catherine Pond and Hilary Vaughn Dobel read from their debut poetry collections. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free. Gregory Brown presents The Lowering Days. Book Passage...
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Allowing for Breathing Room: A Conversation with Jessica Lind Peterson
Jessica Lind Peterson’s debut essay collection, Sound Like Trapped Thunder, opens in a treehouse. This treehouse is a frame without walls. Cold air and creatures come in. It evokes a lofty structure,...
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Notable Online: 3/28–4/3
Monday 3/29: C. L. Polk, Malka Older, Katherine Addison, and Alex Brown discuss science fiction. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free. Irma Olmedo and Frances R. Aparicio discuss Tales...
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On Genre and Angle: A Conversation with Julia Koets
I first met Julia Koets, author of The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays and the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize winner Hold Like Owls, at AWP in Los Angeles during the spring of 2016 when I had the...
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Notable Online: 5/2–5/9
Sunday 5/2: Ae Hee Lee, Francisco Aragón, Tina Cane, Kerrin McCadden, Dan Chiasson, and Kazim Ali, with guest host Wayne Miller, join the Mercy Street Readings. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, $6 suggested donation....
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