The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Marisa Siegel
Talking with Marisa Siegel about FIXED STARS, a little treasure.
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...moreAfterward, there was dead silence in the kitchen. I know because I held my breath. Even air molecules seemed to still.
...moreAbove all, The Red Zone is a story of intimacy and love, in both substance and form.
...moreIn the nursing home, his few lucid days are passed recounting the things he had prayed for as a child. The zookeepers, he cackles. I prayed for the zookeepers.
...moreCreating a site-specific installation in the middle of nowhere is somewhat akin to writing a novel—who knows if an audience will ever find their way to it.
...moreThe hardwired need, the uncontrollable craving people described, manifested for me primarily with my bulimia. Alcohol played second string in the quartet.
...moreReading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
...moreIf you really must know, the main difference / between fame and infamy is the number of / mornings / you wake up alone.
...moreThe animal spirit of poetry brings us closer to our own humanity.
...moreStart at the beginning—you would think it was something I should have learned from the first novel. But I wonder about these obstacles that we put in front of ourselves that keep us from getting further along or finishing.
...moreArt is never just art, and whiteness’ vision of the world doesn’t include me in it.
...more“This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and we know what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”
...moreSometimes, she thinks her parents can mute the world.
...moreThere was a lot of screaming, and it was very visceral and slippery. If I had to describe my childhood in one scene, it would be that one.
...moreAs I type this, we’re at 149 Rumpus Members, which puts us not-quite a third of the way (29%) toward our June goal of 500. By now (a little more than halfway through June), we were hoping to be a bit past the mid-point of 250 members. Even though our 500 Member goal is way […]
...moreAn illustrated review of Sumana Roy’s new essay collection, HOW I BECAME A TREE!
...moreOttessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel, MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION.
...moreI think I’m done with them.
...moreEach day from January 7 to January 20, Rumpus Original Poems will feature poetry written in response to the coming presidential inauguration. Today’s poem is from Kaveh Akbar.
...moreI can’t recall a single time that my father has told me about his journey through the mountains . . . It was just something that I picked up, some truth that I have always carried.
...moreIt takes a certain tenacity to embrace being a stoner. It’s all you want to do sometimes as the daily driver and mode of being.
...more“Things can catch fire even when they let each other go. But we don’t give up. We don’t stop loving them.”
...more. . . what does that say about us that we crave experiences with nature but do everything in our power to eradicate and tame it where we spend most of our time?
...more” . . . I’m pretending to be a student for the sake of a thought experiment I’m trying to disguise as a story so it has a better chance of getting read. Also, I look young.”
...moreI’m thinking about the process of leaving the body.
...moreIt wasn’t underground at all. We’d just been looking the other way.
...moreBooks that are a feast for the eyes
...moreAn excerpt from Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS out from Red Hen Press in June 2022.
...moreFortinbras felt so good / the way he came after everyone was dead / with an army, and their complexes were dead / dead, dead, but still soft, the flush / just barely drained from of their cheeks,
...moreIn What Pecan Light VanderHart seeks to address “the white ghosts / of the South” by bringing them to the light for all to see.
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