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Posts by: Michael Wasson

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Wasson

By Michael Wasson

August 9th, 2018

now tell me / we’ll make it // to the end / of our unanswerable lives

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Tags: Michael Wasson, poems, poetry, Rumpus Original Poetry

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Self-Portrait with Parts Missing and/or Smeared

By Michael Wasson

July 30th, 2016

A first day means there was a never-day.

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Tags: body, colonization, essay, grandmother, language, lyric essay, Michael Wasson, Native American, ocean, personal essay, school, Skin, storms

Michael Wasson is the author of This American Ghost (YesYes Books, 2017). The recipient of a 2018 NACF National Artist Fellowship in Literature and the 2017 Adrienne Rich Award, his poems appear in American Poets, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, and Best New Poets. He is nimíipuu from the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho.

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