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From the Archive: Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Three Poems by Fatimah Asghar

  • Fatimah Asghar
  • June 2, 2022
& yes, my family did raise me right. Yes, / they cleaned their bones & cracked them clean / open to suck. Would fight over cartilage & knuckle/Sip the marrow’s nectar from urn. .
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Joe at the Aquarium

  • Ariél M. Martinez
  • December 16, 2021
I pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues.
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From the Outside In: Talking with Ellene Glenn Moore

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • October 8, 2021
Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.
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Creating a Fractured Whole: Megan Culhane Galbraith’s The Guild of the Infant Saviour

  • Chin-Sun Lee
  • October 6, 2021
To have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.
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Pickled Tree Cookie

  • Taneum Bambrick
  • October 4, 2021
A fossil. A body. A message from a recovered life.
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Haunted, Beloved: A Conversation with Jacques Rancourt

  • Michael Colbert
  • September 15, 2021
Jacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
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On Trauma, Memory, and Language: Talking with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

  • Arya Roshanian
  • August 30, 2021
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses her new novel, SAVAGE TONGUES.
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Reimagining Place in the Pandemic

  • Edward Derby
  • August 17, 2021
This collection suggests again and again that poets and poetry are conjoined with such places—found on a map and indelibly mapped to the psyche.
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Inner Conversations Projected on a Surface: Bruno K. Öijer’s The Trilogy

  • Naheed Patel
  • August 13, 2021
A family’s grief traps generations in a search for insight.
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We Are More: Shattering the Ethnic Monolith Myth in The Gimmicks

  • Aram Mrjoian
  • August 3, 2021
To say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.
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My Grandfather’s Laugh Is like Thread

  • Wendie Yeung
  • July 27, 2021
Is he there? Does he hear? Does he understand?
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Malus Domestica

  • Angie Romines
  • July 26, 2021
Apples do not grow “true to seed,” meaning that what you put in the ground isn’t always what comes back out of it.
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