So Much At Risk: Talking with Christopher Soto
If I am audacious enough to imagine [my] reader, then I imagine this is a person who has never had the option to look away.
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Posts Tagged: Christopher Soto
Next Letter in the Mail: Christopher Soto
Our next Letter in the Mail is from Christopher Soto!
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Notable Online: 3/7–3/13
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Deleting Your Photos in a Poppy Field
It took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
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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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Notable Los Angeles: 5/27–6/2
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2018!
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A Kind of Communal History: Nepantla edited by Christopher Soto
Fundamentally, [Nepantla] is an act of history-making in verse.
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What to Read When You’re Queer and of Color during Pride
Books by queer poets of color included in the Nepantla anthology!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #130: Kaveh Akbar
“I took a six or seven year break from sending out my own poems, just waiting for my abilities to catch up a bit with my ambitions.”
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National Poetry Month Day 2: Christopher Soto
Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new poems daily from poets we admire. We aim to illustrate a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Tommy Pico
The more of us there are out here sharing our work and telling our own stories and flying our freak flags, being our intricate, strange, and idiosyncratic selves, the less power the monolith has.
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For Lambda Literary, Christopher Soto talks with Brenda Shaughnessy about her new collection of poetry and how she relates to her writing as someone who is already four collections in. She outlines the ways in which her work has been shaped by embarrassment, her experiences within the queer community, and the importance of a writer […]
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Over at Lit Hub, Christopher Soto (aka Loma) reflects on Orlando and writes movingly about the experience of holding an identity that is constantly targeted and executed in our world: He propped me up like the roof of a cathedral, in NYC / Before, we opened the news and read. And read about people who […]
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The Internet may have irreversibly altered the forms activism takes, but there is still room for change. Christopher Soto reflects on activist frameworks used in 2015 and offers their strategies for working toward a more inclusive poetry community in the future: I believe in critical conversations with my community, I believe in doing rehabilitative work […]
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