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Amy Letter

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  • ENOUGH
  • Politics
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ENOUGH: The Conversation Is Just Beginning

  • The Rumpus
  • November 7, 2017
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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  • Rumpus Original

From the Editors: On Charlottesville and White Supremacy

  • The Rumpus
  • August 15, 2017
Rumpus editors share their thoughts on Charlottesville and white supremacy. When we have a platform to speak out against hatred and bigotry, we must use it to do so.
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  • Rumpus Original

From the Editors: Election 2016

  • The Rumpus
  • November 7, 2016
This election is critical. We are code-red. We might elect our first woman president, or we might elect a man who is at best dangerous and unqualified and at worst the end of democracy as we know it today.
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National Poetry Month Day 7: from “The Singing Ape, Or, Life in Pink” by Amy Letter

  • Rumpus Original Poems
  • April 7, 2015
from “The Singing Ape, Or, Life in Pink”
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Open the Pod Bay Doors, MAL: The Rumpus Interview with Lori Emerson

  • Amy Letter
  • September 24, 2013
"I do think that diagnosing and fixing problems with our machines that are twenty or even thirty years old is similar to fixing an old VW Bug—the architecture is simple enough and open enough that, given enough spare parts, there's almost always a way to fix them."
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Ana Menendez

  • Amy Letter
  • August 4, 2011
"As I writer, I dream of readers who approach a book with the same kind of engagement that went into the writing."
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National Poetry Month Day 10: “Universal Translator” by Amy Letter

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  • April 10, 2011
Universal Translator Universal Translator from Amy Letter on Vimeo. Science fiction stories set in an alien-rich future like to show the universe’s different species communicating seamlessly by means of (what…
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Amy Letter: A Poem I Love

  • A Poem I Love
  • April 4, 2009
The last poem I loved is “Strongly Scented Sonnet” by Rhoda Janzen. It’s vivid and perverse, a bit disgusting, yet the most palpably romantic poem I have ever read. A…
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The Last Book I Loved: Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle

  • Amy Letter
  • March 21, 2009
Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle is a crass and hilarious slice of growing up “different,” as fun to read today as it was in 1973. Molly Bolt is an unashamed…
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