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Notable NYC: 4/2–4/8
Saturday 4/2: Julian Talamantez and Sarah Wang join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 4/3: Sean Beaudoin, Teddy Wayne, Diana Spechler, and Robert Burke Warren join the Sunday Night Fiction series. KGB, 7 p.m., free. Monday 4/4:…
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National Poetry Month Day 2: Paula Bohince
THE FLINT RIVER Like the Lethe, which says Forget, or the one in Egypt, a river will take into itself what is offered: run-offs, toxic
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Vivian Lee
As an editor of color, one advantage I have is that writers of color are comfortable knowing I’m not asking for edits to artificially enhance or to cover up their race. It’s not weird to me that their characters look…
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The Conversation: José Olivarez and Nate Marshall
There are so many spaces in this country where I feel unsafe particularly because of my body.
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A Letter to My Father That He Will Never Read
What would I even say if I was to answer that long-awaited phone call? Would the light of forgiveness carry me fearlessly into tomorrow?
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Notable Chicago: 4/1–4/7
Saturday 4/2: Eva Dowdell shares Single Mom Style at City Lit Books, 5 p.m. Alison Stewart is Digging Through America’s Love Affair with Stuff at The Book Cellar, 6 p.m. Sunday 4/3: Rey Andujar discusses the lasting legacy of Federico…
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National Poetry Month Day 1: Cynthia Cruz
GUIDEBOOKS FOR THE DEAD And the enchantment of children’s hospitals.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
My dreams are filled with vintage SoCal signs. It’s time to appreciate the Soviet Bauhaus. But what is life like around the Kola Superdeep Borehole. We all love a good weird oozing super-earth. Now usher in your weekend with some…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Barber
Poet Jennifer Barber discusses loss, identity, historical trauma, and her newest collection, Works on Paper.
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The Conversation: Joshua Bennett and Camonghne Felix
What scares me in the current work is how much I trust the concept, what I’m trying to achieve.
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The Rumpus National Poetry Month Project
Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month by running new poems from poets we admire. We feature a different poet each day, and aim to illustrate the variety in voices and styles of poetry being written today. New poems…
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Deep Conditioning with Wilson Phillips
“Don’t become a professor,” he said. “I’d rather you become a garbage man. They get paid more and have better benefits.”