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Waking Up at the Wake: Desire, Death, and Disruption in A Shiver in the Leaves

  • Randy James
  • April 12, 2023
When I consider a shiver in the leaves, my mind fares in two directions: One is back to my first-time experience with psilocybin, shocked at how the fig leaves hung as if shivering . . . and the other is back through American history . . .
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Birth Stories: Kendra DeColo’s I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World

  • Lynne Feeley
  • October 1, 2021
The speaker is both ruthlessly in her body and simultaneously elsewhere.
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To Gleam at the Periphery: Talking with Kendra DeColo

  • Preeti Vangani
  • September 8, 2021
Kendra DeColo discusses her new collection, I AM NOT TRYING TO HIDE MY HUNGERS FROM THE WORLD.
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Why We Chose Derrick Austin’s Tenderness for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club

  • Brian Spears
  • August 3, 2021
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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A Space of Sanctuary: Mother Country by Elana Bell

  • Holly Mason
  • March 26, 2021
The body, like a country, holds so much, and all at once.
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Others Would Tell Me Nothing Is Mine: Talking with Barbara Jane Reyes

  • ire’ne lara silva
  • September 8, 2020
Barbara Jane Reyes discusses her new collection, LETTERS TO A YOUNG BROWN GIRL.
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What Could Be: All Its Charms by Keetje Kuipers

  • Risa Denenberg
  • August 21, 2020
The decision to have a child is fraught at the best of times.
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Visitations: Gwendolyn Brooks at One Hundred

  • Julie R. Enszer
  • September 12, 2017
A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
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Earnest, Funny, and Fun: Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities

  • James Davis May
  • June 16, 2017
What makes Chen’s poetry so exhilarating is that these poems always have a center of gravity—the self—that keeps the many subjects they explore in orbit.
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Why I Chose When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities for April’s Poetry Book Club

  • Brian Spears
  • March 17, 2017
I am drawn to poetry about the difficulties of family, about the pain of feeling one is a disappointment to their parents, about the sense of separation that can come as…
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What’s at Stake: The NEA and the Literary Ecosystem

  • Brent Cunningham
  • January 26, 2017
As a poet I get it: talking about “literary infrastructure” is boring. Who wouldn’t rather talk about poets, poems, or aesthetic movements? When we start hearing a lot about the…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Janice N. Harrington

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • October 18, 2016
Janice N. Harrington on her new collection Primitive and critiquing the use of "primitive" to describe African American folk art.
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