Meditations on Green, Grief, and Girlhood: Talking with Susan Nguyen
Susan Nguyen discusses her debut poetry collection, DEAR DIASPORA.
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Poetry
Writing from the Bottom: Active Reception by Noah Ross
Active Reception writes into the place where language fails.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jai Dulani
there came a night I thanked god // for reincarnation.
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You Can’t Stop Rivers from Running: Talking with Rajiv Mohabir
Rajiv Mohabir discusses ANTIMAN and CUTLISH.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Derrick Austin
Derrick Austin discusses his new poetry collection, TENDERNESS.
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Bringing to Light: A Gathering and Tethering of Memory in Darla Himeles’s Cleave
Poems echo, rebound, and speak to one another.
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Time Is Just an Idea: Talking with Carly Inghram
Carly Inghram discusses her new poetry collection, THE ANIMAL INDOORS.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Zefyr Lisowski
He wasn’t my father but someday would be someone’s.
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Gods Arrive Where We Pay Attention: A Conversation with Avni Vyas
Avni Vyas discusses her debut poetry collection, LITTLE GOD.
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Bright Buoy, Dark Sea: Kelli Russell Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides
Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jessica Le
The steam wallows out of the kettle and your book’s pages / turn themselves.
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Sarah Ghazal Ali, Erin L. McCoy, and Tawanda Mulalu.
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Projective Wonder: Imagine Us, the Swarm by Muriel Leung
The individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.
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From the Outside In: Talking with Ellene Glenn Moore
Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Bryan Byrdlong
We / not a boat people / rather / water // undammed / a waiting hurricane
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Serrina Zou
One day, I will cheat death & wake up // in the afterlife after dusk, breathing.
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A Small Universe Set in Motion: Talking with Amanda Moore
Amanda Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, REQUEENING.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Carly Inghram
Carly Inghram discusses her new poetry collection, THE ANIMAL INDOORS.
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Of Language and Lineage: Carlina Duan’s Alien Miss
All the while, the sound of the poetry behind the telling is sharp, rhythmic, and controlled.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Maya Salameh
the doctors – never warn you about the poem / between your legs.
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Starting with Fire: A Conversation with Mai Der Vang
Mai Der Vang discusses her new poetry collection, YELLOW RAIN.
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A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight
In Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by KB Kinkel
You’ve done this before, you know. In so many bodies.
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Haunted, Beloved: A Conversation with Jacques Rancourt
Jacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
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Like Clockwork, Like Memory: There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife by JinJin Xu
How to live with a love so intense, a pressure so ripe?
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Grab Hold the Rope of Language: A Conversation with Jan Beatty
Jan Beatty discusses her new memoir, AMERICAN BASTARD.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Adela Najarro
My mother’s words / explode volcanic vowels.
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The Plane That We Inhabit: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones
Ashley M. Jones discusses her new poetry collection, REPARATIONS NOW!.
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