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Delicious Anger: A Conversation with Gwen E. Kirby

When I’ve been running regularly and writing regularly, it tends to go well. When I haven’t been running or writing in a while, then I’m bent over heaving for breath and wondering why I ever thought I knew how to write a sentence.

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Defying Gravity: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars

This book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.

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ENOUGH

Call for Submissions: ENOUGH

A new ENOUGH submissions window opens January 1!

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From the Archive: Unbound

It’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.

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Ancient Voices, Language, Cats: Talking with Kaveh Akbar about Pilgrim Bell

To reduce a poem to a purely autobiographical, experiential reading feels limiting to me. To reduce a poem to an “aboutness” seems limiting to me. The poet Allen Grossman said, “A poem is about a thing the way a cat is about a house.”

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ENOUGH: Letting Myself Breathe

A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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What to Read When Imagining the Natural World

In one of Jane Goodall’s early books, there’s a photo of two chimpanzees sitting on a height watching the sun set. Are they enjoying the colors the way we do?…

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