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Broadening the Scope of the Environmental Canon: An Interview with Camille T. Dungy

Some books defy categories. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) by poet Camille T. Dungy pushes the limits of what readers might expect from…

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the strange, the surprising, the slightly off-center: A Rumpus Conversation with J. Bailey Hutchinson

part of my fixation with textured and torqued language . . . stems from growing up in the South, where figurative language isn’t limited to formal literary spaces.

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A Journey Into Deep Terrain: Katherine May’s Enchantment

On finding a source for enchantment

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Not every queer story needs to be a coming out story: An Interview with Miah Jeffra

Don’t we often write about what we struggle to understand?

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Sketch Book Reviews: Poetry Unbound

I think when things in the world seem particularly bad/sad/awful, poetry can add a little light

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I Never Thought I’d Write a Book Like This: An Interview with Nicole Chung

It's my year of Banana.

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The Poem is Second, Living is First: An Interview with Tim Z. Hernandez

Above everything else, people come first.

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The Sound of Home: Sonorous Desert by Kim Haines-Eitzen

. . . if we open our ears . . . we might even find ourselves feeling truly home

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I Freed Myself from Needing to Make Sense: A Conversation with Leila Chatti

I’ve learned by now my mind is smarter than I am, than my conscious self—it’s doing all sorts of things in there, unbeknownst to me. I often tell my students that the poem knows better than I do, and so I shouldn’t be arrogant enough to think I’m in control.

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Waking Up at the Wake: Desire, Death, and Disruption in A Shiver in the Leaves

When I consider a shiver in the leaves, my mind fares in two directions: One is back to my first-time experience with psilocybin, shocked at how the fig leaves hung as if shivering . . . and the other is back through American history . . .

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