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September 2nd, 2011

Bel Canto to Bulgaria: The Rumpus Interview with Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell’s first novella, Mitko, won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Contest. Greenwell discusses “gay identity,” loneliness abroad, and art songs with Shara Lessley. …more

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April 28th, 2010

Lightning Strikes Twice: The Rumpus Interview with Nick Lantz

How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it! …more

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April 15th, 2009

Tips for Poets Inspired by Another Dead White Male

1678_illustration1_miltonIn order to become an epic poet, Milton believed he must also refuse “lustral waters.” In other words, aspiring artists must remain chaste. …more

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Shara Lessley is a former Stegner Fellow. Her awards include the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, an Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship, the Tickner Fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation prize. Shara’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review and Alaska Quarterly Review, among others. Her collection, Two-Headed Nightingale, is forthcoming from New Issues in 2012. She currently lives in Amman, Jordan.

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