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Personal, Political, and Poetic: A Conversation with Susan Briante

Susan Briante discusses The Market Wonders, her newest collection of poetry in which she draws on market indicators like the Dow Jones Industrial Average to construct a criticism of contemporary culture.

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National Poetry Month Day 4: Tina Kelley

Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month by running new poems from poets we admire. We feature a different poet each day, and aim to illustrate the variety in voices and styles of poetry being written today.

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Metaphors for My Forgetful Heart

My body is a drum, its last vibration fading out. My body is a temple, serene and contemplative, all voices finally stilled. My body is a glider plane, floating on warm currents of air in the eerie, engineless quiet.

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TORCH: Lessons From My Grandma on Language and Silence

The sounds I made were pleasant to my ears, but that’s all they were to me. I was too young to understand what culture and heritage meant, too young to understand the reasons behind memorizing ancient poems.

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National Poetry Month Day 3: Maya Jewell Zeller

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A List of Concerns

I’m not sure how it happened, but I’ve ventured beyond what I came to see. The end of the road, the limitless sky—I still haven’t found our prairie.

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Storytelling Is a Search: An Interview with Sequoia Nagamatsu

Sequoia Nagamatsu discusses his debut collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, grief as a character, and the intersection of ancient myth and the modern world.

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National Poetry Month Day 2: Kimberly Grey

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman

Bite that apple, open that jar at your own risk and see how your garden grows, how hopeful you remain. Paradise is, after all, blissful self-ignorance.

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