For the last couple of weeks, I've been putting together the National Poetry Month project for The Rumpus, where I'm the poetry editor. It's a fair amount of work, wrangling 30 poems from 30 different people in various stages of their careers, balancing styles and genders and ethnicities and ages among other things. And I'm … Continue reading National Poetry Month’s Coming
I’m a Poetry Populist
Before I started doing my weekly column for The Rumpus, my contact with the poetic blogosphere was very limited. I linked to Mark Scroggins's Culture Industry and read his posts more because he's a colleague of mine than anything else. And even though I'm now the Poetry Editor for The Rumpus, I still don't really … Continue reading I’m a Poetry Populist