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National Poetry Month Day 19: Jari Bradley
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
On the Mystery of Eating Meat: Springer Mountain by Wyatt Williams
If you eat meat, then you are an animal who kills other animals. Humans are not alone in this, but more than all other creatures of the earth, we have gotten grotesquely good at it.
National Poetry Month Day 18: Nomi Stone
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
I Don’t Sing to Be Heard, I Do It to Keep On: An interview with Ashanti Anderson
“It is impossible to be at peace without understanding.”
National Poetry Month Day 17: Sarah Ghazal Ali
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 16: D. A. Powell
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
Voices on Addiction: We Don’t Talk About Recovery
We don’t talk, for instance, about wine at dinner parties, or wine at house warmings, or boxed wine on the front stoop, or beers at the game, or mommy…
National Poetry Month Day 15: Camonghne Felix
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 14: María Fernanda
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
Rumpus Book Club Excerpt: Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary by Laura Stanfill
An excerpt from Laura Stanfill's Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, forthcoming from Lanternfish Press, April 2022.
Life is Damage: A Conversation with Claire Messud
If you’re interested in character, then you’re interested in perspective, and intimacy, and in the distinctions—and distance—between one person’s mind and another’s.