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Nick Ripatrazone
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Night Moves
Parents of twins learn that there are two babies but three identities: one for each baby, and then the twin identity, an amorphous, shared mass of personality and action.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ming Holden
Writer and development worker Ming Holden discusses her book The Survival Girls, a nonfiction novella that looks at the lives of a group of refugee women from Nairobi who use art and personal performance to combat systematic abuse.
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The Rumpus Interview with Mark Jay Brewin, Jr.
Mark Jay Brewin, Jr. waxes about Catholicism, the roles of fathers and sons, and what it means to be a poet from New Jersey.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Berry
Lauren Berry, author of The Lifting Dress, discusses her experiences as a high school teacher, in an effort to continue a needed conversation about careers for graduates of Creative Writing MFA programs.
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Thorns In Our Hair, But Never a Shroud
Used well, the collective perspective affords the poet a wider voice, a surer sense. The reader feels present in these moments of ruin, trusting even the more fantastical occurrences.