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The Rumpus Talks with Michael Pedersen About the Beauty of Male Friendship

An acclaimed Scottish writer and performer, Michael Pedersen is the author of two poetry collections, Play with Me and Oyster, and most recently a memoir titled Boy Friends, which celebrates…

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Tasting Our Own Wildness: Talking with Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

. . . perhaps humanity is not the pinnacle of what a living thing can be . . .

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Ross Gay Waters the Seed of Joy: A Rumpus Interview

Rightness and goodness and fixedness is not the objective. The objective is to just be curious and wonder about the thing . . .

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Sketch Book Reviews: A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors

While this book is about a tiny part of the world, it's universal in its particularity—a must-read for anyone who loves lyric essays.

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Scaling The National through Poetics: A dialogue between Rodrigo Toscano and Paisley Rekdal

Transient feelings about feelings of deliverance from (I’d say, national) anxiety. People are micro-dosing on sentimental poetry.

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Daydreams of Blackness: Some of Them Will Carry Me by Giada Scodellaro

Scodellaro’s characters have autonomy, know their comforts and desires, and find space and safety in the corners of forgotten places. They grieve on countertops, chewing ice and waiting for the return of a lover who has left for another.

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Many Middles-of-Nowhere: A Conversation with Robin McLean

Once a lawyer, always a lawyer.

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Far from Usual and Better for It: The Layered Poetics of Allison Blevins’s Slowly/Suddenly

Slowly/Suddenly is presented as a diptych in the Table of Contents, perhaps mirroring Blevins’s commitments to other forms of art, but her poems’ progression from Part I to Part II is not a linear narrative, not a Before & After.

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Taking to Heart Unbearable Reality: The Rumpus Interview with Jorie Graham

As I say to myself, living under the reality of this new, second cancer, I am rich in minutes. Maybe not in years, or, who knows, even months. But minutes, yes. So, I try not to squander them.

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Take a Good Look: Lisa Taddeo’s Ghost Lover

"Crystal" was really her name. She was always as gentle as she could be. I am grateful to her for that.

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What does it mean to believe in something: A Conversation with Nancy Marie Brown

But this sense of being able to open yourself up to wonder is something you can do at any age. You just have to open yourself to it. Frankly, for me, it's a whole lot easier to do that when you're out in the middle of nowhere, you're cold and you're hungry.

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