To Name and Document, Cherish and Remember: A Conversation with Sarah Ghazal Ali
I am moved by the revelation that comes but does not announce itself, as a powerful ending or climax might, but waits to be returned to and recognized.
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Shara Lessley
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Shara Lessley is the author of The Explosive Expert’s Wife, winner of the Sheila Margaret Motton prize, Two-Headed Nightingale, and co-editor of The Poem’s Country. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, her awards include an NEA, Mary Wood Fellowship from Washington College, Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from University of Wisconsin, O’Connor Fellowship from Colgate University, and “Discovery”/The Nation prize. Shara’s work has been published in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Recent essays appear in Kenyon Review, Bennington Review, New England Review, and Cincinnati Review. Shara is Creative Nonfiction Editor for West Branch and Consulting Editor for Acre Books.
Bel Canto to Bulgaria: The Rumpus Interview with Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell’s first novella, Mitko, won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Contest. Greenwell discusses “gay identity,” loneliness abroad, and art songs with Shara Lessley.
Lightning Strikes Twice: The Rumpus Interview with Nick Lantz
How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!
Tips for Poets Inspired by Another Dead White Male
In order to become an epic poet, Milton believed he must also refuse “lustral waters.” In other words, aspiring artists must remain chaste.