The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #182: Valerie Nieman
“We’re all freaks, all wanderers, all seekers.”
Poetry
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Poet Samantha Giles discusses her newest collection, TOTAL RECALL.
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Eve L. Ewing discusses her new collection, 1919.
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Saudade is often translated as longing, and as with most translations, what gets left out matters.
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a pastor. green.a pen like a pink tooth. i wish you ink that bleeds.
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Except she isn't windless and neither are we, thanks to her.
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What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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The poems of Ridiculous Light are wary of hope yet keep thrumming toward it.
Show without Telling: Stay by Tanya Olson
[I]f you want maximum pleasure from this collection, then, you will want to listen closely.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Natalie Scenters-Zapico discusses her new collection, LIMA :: LIMÓN.
A Complicated, Shifting Subjectivity: Talking with Franny Choi
Franny Choi discusses her second collection, SOFT SCIENCE.
Mindful Witnesses: Three Books from New Directions
Barbara Berman reviews work by Dunya Mikhail, Thomas Merton, and Robert Lax.