Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Sarah Ghazal Ali, Erin L. McCoy, and Tawanda Mulalu.
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Posts Tagged: Aracelis Girmay
A Poetics of Questions: The Bower by Connie Voisine
To learn is perhaps Voisine’s primary goal in writing the poems in The Bower.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with torrin greathouse
torrin a. greathouse discusses her debut collection, WOUND FROM THE MOUTH OF A WOUND.
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What to Read When You Need to Understand Structural Inequity
There are many types of burns, but there is the cooling stream of joy.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
Rumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to Black history past, present, and future.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Shira Erlichman
Shira Erlichman discusses her debut poetry collection, ODES TO LITHIUM.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
Rumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month!
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Notable NYC: 12/8–12/14
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
Rumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
Rumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to black history, past and present.
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On Joy: Three Poetry Anthologies
With impermanence and “praise for the devil” all around, it’s a gift to rediscover joy, no matter how fleeting.
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The Rumpus Interview with Monica Sok
Monica Sok discusses her award-winning poetry chapbook Year Zero, her interest in Southeast Asian history, and living in isolation.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aracelis Girmay about her poetry collection, Kingdom Animalia.
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We are excited to announce Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia as the August selection for the August Rumpus Poetry Book Club. This poetry collection, published by BOA Editions is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2011. Author Chris Abani deemed it, “a beautiful evocation of the bittersweet complexities of the human heart and […]
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