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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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Poems

National Poetry Month, Day 2: “The Starving Saint” by Sandy Longhorn

The Starving Saint Encased in silver, the feet of the saint crack and splinter in the first hard frost.

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Book Club Blog

Signs of Spring: Book Club Round-Up

Time to start April’s book club selection, The Convert, by Deborah Baker. Says Bookforum’s reviews editor Michael Miller: “I think Stephen Elliott has good taste, so I usually check out…

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Rumpus Book Club Hat Tip

“I think Stephen Elliott has good taste, so I usually check out what he chooses for his reading group at The Rumpus. That’s how I heard about Deborah Baker’s The Convert.” Bookforum reviews…

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National Poetry Month, Day 1: “Bronze Age” by Shane Book

Shane Book’s collection of poems, Ceiling of Sticks, was the first book chosen by the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. You can check out Poetry Book Club Board member Camille Dungy’s…

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #69: We Are All Savages Inside

But the people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

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FUNNY WOMEN #49: RE: Interesting Article

Dad, Thanks so much for your most recent email! It’s been awhile since we’ve last spoken (no hard feelings, it was White Sox season, I know), so I can hardly…

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #80

RIGHT HERE WAITING FOR YOU BY RICHARD MARX ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Right…

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Luuk Imhann: The Last Book I Loved, A Moveable Feast

I knew I would love A Moveable Feast, as it deals with Hemingway’s personal life as a young writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book isn’t regarded as fiction,…

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