The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Jeff Tweedy
“The fact is we’re all living part of one long song.”
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Mini-Interviews
The Rumpus Mini-interview Project: Andrea Bartz
“And as those masks fall away, we get down to the shame and envy underneath.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sarah M. Sala
“A poem is like a vision test—its vision is either clear or it’s not.”
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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Rosanna Warren
“Any good poem has form and acts out its meanings in form.”
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The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project: Melissa Wiley
“All evolution—in every sense—entails loss, the need to let things go.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Marlin M. Jenkins
“I really believe that if it matters to the writer, it can find space in the poem.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #232: Mary Morris
“To really write, I need to hold a pen.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #231: Ruth O. Saxton
“While the past remains always present, old women exist in the present.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #230: Carley Moore
“I like to tell my secrets.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #229: Joshua Harmon
“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #228: Alden Jones
“You can make any topic enough in the telling.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #227: Karen Salyer McElmurray
“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #226: Benjamin Nugent
“I’m interested in beautiful events that are wrong.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #225: Debra Jo Immergut
“I found that the tap seemed to open when I accessed deep emotion and memory.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan
“Memoir is about recreating the complexities of a life.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #222: Kathryn Scanlan
“I work slowly, from sentence to sentence, and attempt to stay attuned to opportunity.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #221: Noah C. Lekas
“Hopefully, the takeaway is the journey.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #220: Jennifer Steil
“Ultimately art is about making sense of our brief lives on earth.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #219: Zak Ferguson
“[I]t is an itch that needs to be scratched. To test. To push. To prove to myself.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #218: Rufi Thorpe
“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #217: Sue William Silverman
“Our memories are always in flux.”
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The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project #216: Corinne Manning
“I’ve never had a book happen to me the way WE HAD NO RULES did.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #215: Traci Brimhall
“Everything in my life is basically a scribble.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #214: Sarah Kersey
“A poem cannot exist without form or structure, just like the human body can’t operate without a skeleton.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky
“I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #212: Mark Bibbins
“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #211: Rachel Vorona Cote
“Ultimately, this is who I am. I can only write honestly, and from where I live.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview #210: Melissa Ragsly
“I am the salt; the stories are the food.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #209: Lisa Olstein
“I don’t think I know how to write if I’m not guided by sound—that’s when it feels like I’m flailing or straining.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #208: Stephen Van Dyck
“This reality is so much dustier, smellier, and bitterer than it seems through a screen.”
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