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Delicious Anger: A Conversation with Gwen E. Kirby
When I’ve been running regularly and writing regularly, it tends to go well. When I haven’t been running or writing in a while, then I’m bent over heaving for breath and wondering why I ever thought I knew how to write a sentence.
Defying Gravity: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars
This book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.
Ancient Voices, Language, Cats: Talking with Kaveh Akbar about Pilgrim Bell
To reduce a poem to a purely autobiographical, experiential reading feels limiting to me. To reduce a poem to an “aboutness” seems limiting to me. The poet Allen Grossman said, “A poem is about a thing the way a cat is about a house.”
A Redemptive Elsewhere: Rohan Chhetri’s Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful
A review of Rohan Chhetri's Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful.
Gentefication and The Politics of Poetry with Antonio De Jesús López
Antonio De Jesús López discusses his new collection, GENTEFICATION.
A Chorus of Voices: Talking with Daphne Palasi Andreades
Daphne Palasi Andreades discusses her debut novel, BROWN GIRLS.
Bringing My Regular Bullshit to It: The Rumpus Interview with Dave Housley
Talking with Dave Housley about his novel THE OTHER ONES, available later this month.
Still, Life: Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
I’ll never see Kitamura’s exhibition in real life, but I’m still grateful to have been invited to the opening.
A Cosmic Wade Through Uncertainty: Talking with Sequoia Nagamatsu
Talking with Sequoia Nagamatsu about HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK.
What to Read When Remembering bell hooks, Eve Babitz, and Joan Didion
Three short book lists of three great writers.
How to Watch While Being Watched: Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s Borealis
The experience, rather than linear, is borealian.