I received my print copy of Issue 17 today. It’s a fat one– 108 pages! And it is, as always, beautiful. The art on the cover and inside are interpretations of poetic forms by Scott Helmes, an artist who introduced himself to us at AWP in Minneapolis.

If you haven’t read this in The Rumpus yet, you must do so now. It is called, “The Eager”. Or, better, listen to the author, Jennifer Palmares Meadows, read it herself.

Do you suffer from idiopathic craniofacial erythema? I do, and so does Yale Professor and essayist Colleen Kinder.