garden, and gun
You be the garden I leave my boots in when I walk barefootafter drought. Do to me what no one has done. Whatcan I do but undo you by asking for morethan was asked before?...
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show #8: Beth Bachmann
Beth Bachmann grew up just outside Philadelphia, the daughter of a shoe-shiner and locker room attendant. She is the author of Temper, a collection of poems about the murder of her sister, which won...
View ArticleRumpus Late Nite Poetry Show Live in NYC!
The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show goes live in NYC this Wednesday, February 4th!Readings by Stephen Elliott, David Roderick, Beth Bachmann, and Nick Flynn, followed by a high-speed literary conversation...
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Do Not Rise by Beth Bachmann
Beth Bachmann’s second book, Do Not Rise, interrogates war and its remainders. The poems are terrifying and complex—the words seem to loom in every part of the room long after you read them. Unlike her...
View ArticleNational Poetry Month Day 26: Beth Bachmann
nectarine & leather (riot)we said they’d never miss it our skin is twisted as harvest & smells like summer all day I hungered outside for something that is not here the rain came went came...
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What to Read When 2018 Is Just Around the Corner
It’s true that 2017 was a terrible year in so very many ways, but it was a remarkable year for reading. (We shared our favorite books from the first half the year here, and from the second half of the...
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
It’s no secret that at The Rumpus, we love us some poetry, which makes April one of our favorite months of the year! But, just in case sharing thirty thrilling new poems with you each day throughout...
View ArticleGet Your Signed Copy of Beth Bachmann’s CEASE!
Beth Bachmann’s new collection of poetry wildly upturns the boundaries between bodies at peace and bodies at war, between the human territory of border walls and the effects of war on the environment...
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Above All, Time: A Conversation with Beth Bachmann
Bachmann’s third collection of poems, CEASE, begins with “to keep the peace / we need a wall”—a statement that steps into the book’s exploration of architectural spaces that we need to both resist and...
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Notable NYC: 11/3–11/9
Saturday 11/3: Fei Liu 刘斐 and Sharon Mesmer join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 11/4: Joshua Idaszak, Anushah Jiwani, and Cheryl Boyce Taylor joins Poets & Writers for an evening...
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