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Mini-Interviews

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #38: Alana Noël Voth in Conversation with Her Best Friend, Judy Salamon

I’ve known Judy Salamon two years. We work together, and she’s one of the main reasons I enjoy my job. Judy tells the best stories. She’s also a kind and…

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Mark Folse: The Last Book I Loved, Mystic Pig

It is a novel, not a cookbook, but my sister the full-on foodie insists that the recipes all look workable, and what could be more perfect than a story about…

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Why I Chose Fall Higher

Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Dean Young’s Fall Higher as the April selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:

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Poems

National Poetry Month Day 7: “Jack Gilbert” by P. Scott Cunningham

Jack Gilbert Love is everything though of course, love dies leaving you in agony and then you die and worms crawl in and out of your skull.

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Mini-Interviews

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #37: Rachel Ann Brickner in Conversation with Varun Bhandari

Varun and I met shortly before we graduated from college, and then I moved across the country. We remained in good touch until he visited me. We fought and then…

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Sean Carman: The Last Book I Loved, Stories I Stole

Wendell Steavenson’s memoir of her time as a freelance foreign correspondent in Tblisi, Georgia, begins in her former Time Magazine office, where she and her friend Nina spin escape fantasies…

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Poems

National Poetry Month Day 6: “Certain Slant” by T. R. Hummer

Certain Slant Concertina music breaks its foam on the haberdashery window, a murder ballad so old even the monkey knows the words

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FUNNY WOMEN #50: Defense Mechanisms (Some New Game Apps for Your Feelings)

“As the computing power of cell phones increases, more and more sophisticated mobile apps are being developed for the mental health field. They’re seen as a way to bridge periodic…

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National Poetry Month Day 5: “The Great Wave” by Barbara Jane Reyes

The Great Wave After Hokusai First, the sea took the shore. She surged and sucked up the sand and gravel, all the soil and clay. She plucked twisted trees from…

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National Poetry Month Day 4: “For the City that Nearly Broke Me” by Reginald Dwayne Betts

For the City that Nearly Broke Me Listen for echoes. Now bury what you lost in the wind’s silence.

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National Poetry Month, Day 3: “Why I Did Not Make Love to Your Dead Body” by Kirsten Kaschock

Kirsten Kaschock’s A Beautiful Name For a Girl was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s January selection. You can read the book club’s interview of her here, and you can find…

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