Notable Online: 6/6–6/12
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Bhanu Kapil
Owning the Narrative: A Conversation with Megan Fernandes
Megan Fernandes discusses her new collection of poetry, GOOD BOYS.
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Poetics of Lineage
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #205: Beth Alvarado
“For me, when I write nonfiction, my mind moves from the outside to the inside.”
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Join the Writers for Migrant Justice Protest!
The organizers of Writers for Migrant Justice suggest books to read ahead of tomorrow’s events.
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What to Read When You’re a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The 2019 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
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A Complicated, Shifting Subjectivity: Talking with Franny Choi
Franny Choi discusses her second collection, SOFT SCIENCE.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Brighde Moffat
If there is going to be pain, let it be by choice.
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TORCH: An Alien, Ineligible for Participation
That a bumbling demagogue would be able to take this institutional racism and weaponize it is, then, not really a surprise. The seeds for this hate were planted a long time ago.
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All of Our Pre-Existing Conditions
We admit ourselves to the list of conditions, confess to the hospitals we’ve entered over the years. Through my glowing phone screen the body pokes through.
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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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