The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #131: Lisa Wells
"I always feel like I’m starting over. I don’t know how I ever wrote a poem. I really do have that feeling."
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #130: Kaveh Akbar
"I took a six or seven year break from sending out my own poems, just waiting for my abilities to catch up a bit with my ambitions."
Trust Us When We’re Sick: Maya Dusenbery’s Doing Harm
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