There Are More Knowzits Than Ever
Coleman’s work is functional and communal; she wields the oral tradition in a way that reflects her poetry ancestry—the blues queen, Koko Taylor, for example, or the fringe Beat genius, Bob Kaufman—but...
View ArticleRembering Wanda Coleman
Known as the “L.A. Blueswoman” and “the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles”, Wanda Coleman passed away at the age of 67 on November 22, 2013. There are some very lovely tributes to Coleman at the...
View ArticleNotable Los Angeles 1/13–1/19
Monday 1/13: Write Club Los Angeles presents Chapter 21: Shit Ain’t Real? 3 rounds, 2 opposing writers, and this one features a special SF vs. LA rivalry as the producers of Write Club SF come down to...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Terrance Hayes
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Terrance Hayes about his latest collection, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, playing Scrabble, and his attempt to define the “American” sonnet....
View ArticleThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with t’ai freedom ford
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with t’ai freedom ford about her new collection & More Black (Augury Books, July 2019), the flexibility of the sonnet form, unusual book design, and being in...
View ArticleFreedom Knows Who We Are: Talking with Kelly Harris-DeBerry
In the introduction of Kelly Harris-DeBerry’s debut poetry collection, Freedom Knows My Name, Kalamu ya Salaam says Harris-DeBerry’s poems “are as close as we humans can come to reaching the angelic...
View ArticleWhat to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
It’s Black History Month, and while The Rumpus celebrates writing by Black artists year-round, we think it is especially important to share a list of work written exclusively by Black writers each...
View ArticleThe Revolutions of a Sonnet: frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
The poet Robyn Schiff once remarked in a workshop, with a glow of mischievous joy, that writing in form as a woman poet is like drinking out of the Stanley Cup. Arms outstretched, Schiff grasped and...
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