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Why I Chose Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s Rocket Fantastic for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club

Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s third collection, Rocket Fantastic, is a beautiful book which asks the reader to live in a world where gender and language are both fluid and linked together in a dance…

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erika L. Sánchez

Erika L. Sánchez discusses her new collection Lessons on Expulsion, pushing back against sexism and misogyny, being a troublemaker, and donkeys.

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At the Intersection of Personal and Political: Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now edited by Amit Majmudar

American writers have a long, distinguished history of calling out injustice.

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Beauty Undercut by the Possibility of Terror: Afterland by Mai Der Vang

Precariousness is an essential condition of life for the people who populate Vang’s poems, especially the Hmong refugees on whom the poet’s eye most lovingly lingers.

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#SuicideGirls: Why I Teach Sylvia Plath

But let’s not forget: feminism is, at least in part, about choice, and portions of life are play, not politics. Play and relationships and creativity and whatever we want.

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Rumpus Original Poetry: “Mewl” by Sarah Lyn Rogers

Still, something tells me God’s chosen // weren’t hate-mongering gropers (or worse). Just a hunch. A woman’s / intuition.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 15): “Southern History”

We can’t hide from our history and we can’t pass it on to future generations.

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Color Is a Language in Itself: Mahtem Shiferraw Discusses Fuchsia

Mahtem Shiferraw discusses her debut collection, Fuchsia, how she uses color to understand the world and to communicate, and why her work continually addresses displacement.

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Reclaiming the Language of Pop Culture: Reversible by Marisa Crawford

Marisa Crawford’s Reversible is an evocative collection, showcasing the ways in which pop culture saturates us with meaning, and how it teaches us to become.

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