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Embodied Voices: A Conversation with Sonya Huber

  • Sarah Fawn Montgomery
  • September 28, 2022
So many of the metaphors we use that come from the body and bodily experience are ableist and predicated upon a notion of “normal.” In educational systems, that idea of “normal” has led to serious accessibility issues, to separate and unequal classrooms.
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Tracing the Wolf

  • Maggie Levantovskaya
  • September 16, 2021
To brand myself with something I feared and sought to subdue seemed like a reclamation.
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Voices on Addiction: Safety in a Blue Light

  • Charles G. Thompson
  • July 13, 2021
Television babysat our family—our thirteen-channel set, reception via a rooftop antenna.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Meg Pokrass

  • Audra Kerr Brown
  • June 17, 2021
“The book is about the complicated problem of loving.”
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The Space Between Vertebrae

  • August Lamm
  • May 24, 2021
My hands grow cold and rigid. In those blue-tinged palms, I can see my future.
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I’m Cold, Please Touch Me: The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

  • Carley Moore
  • March 3, 2021
Sycamore wrote this book long before pandemic time, and yet it couldn’t have arrived at a better moment.
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Revisiting and Reinventing the Body: A Conversation with Destiny O. Birdsong

  • Sarah Kersey
  • November 18, 2020
Destiny O. Birdsong discusses her debut poetry collection, NEGOTIATIONS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sarah M. Sala

  • Kiran Bhat
  • November 5, 2020
“A poem is like a vision test—its vision is either clear or it’s not.”
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No Story Ever Really Ends: Talking with Amy Long

  • Haley Sherif
  • August 28, 2020
Amy Long discusses her debut book, CODEPENDENCE.
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Bring the Inward Outward: Talking with Greg Mania

  • Elle Nash
  • August 24, 2020
Greg Mania discusses his debut memoir, BORN TO BE PUBLIC.
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On Shapeshifting and Surrender: A Conversation with Abi Palmer

  • Amy Mackelden
  • July 1, 2020
Abi Palmer discusses her new book, SANATORIUM.
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This Huge, Colossal Joy: A Conversation with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison

  • Janet Frishberg
  • June 1, 2020
Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison discuss their work.
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