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Parallel Practice: Haunting in Theory/Haunting in Practice
Salt is used for food, not purification. Candles should be burned for ambiance, not to manipulate energies.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Paul Hlava Ceballos
Ay chiquitín, I think but do not say— / the language and tone feel / of another world.
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The First Book: Zahid Rafiq
There were feelings, images, voices, silences, and there is life, the experience of living. It came from that.
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One Can Be Alive Again: Madeleine Cravens’s Pleasure Principle
Cravens’s reliance on and loyalty to the image become a propulsive, vibrating force—this is a poetics of presence, of that which is tangible….
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Memoir as a Vehicle for Connection: A Conversation with Sarah LaBrie
If I can be as specific as possible about my own understanding of my experience, that will have to resonate with some other people.
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Still Working on It
You shouldn’t beat them with your hand, because they will hate you and bite it, so you use mass media instead.
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“Why Are You Still Resisting?”: On M.M. Olivas’s Sundown in San Ojuela
Olivas’s novel is a gross-as-hell ghost story and a razor-sharp vision of the present moment, a multi-narrator rollercoaster you’ll binge like your favorite television show.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Leaves of a Cypress Tree
You had to knock thrice slowly on the door’s edge, said Grandma, and if she didn’t reply, that meant she didn’t want you to come inside.
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The Light Realm, the Dark Realm, and Everything in the Middle: A Conversation with Hyeseung Song
People have to give themselves more grace. It takes effort to do what we are doing.
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Through the Y2K Looking Glass: A Conversation with Kristen Felicetti
I think as a reader, you can make the mental connection between the internet then and now and how much things have changed.
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ENOUGH: Three Poems
I spoke of Love as they speak of God in court, / distant and hypothetical. Something I might bow to / if you could prove it to me.
