The Lenses We Can’t See: A Conversation with Howard Axelrod
Howard Axelrod discusses his new book, THE STARS IN OUR POCKETS.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers discusses her new collection, THE TILT TORN AWAY FROM THE SEASONS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #206: Tina May Hall
“[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”
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Metamorphoses: The Uninhabitable Earth and The Overstory
And then, from this scorched landscape, transformation.
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Lesbian Poetry’s Vatic Voices: The Specter of Ecocatastrophe
Change happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
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Paying Attention: Elizabeth Jacobson’s Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air
Looking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
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The Climate of Feeling: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk
Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
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The Planet Will Survive Us: A Conversation with Liz Breazeale
Liz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.
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Between Sex and Death: Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets
Survival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
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Turning Purple: Blood Feast
It isn’t until I look at my wife’s face that I can feel my own fear.
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Energizing the Choir: A Conversation with Lindy West
Lindy West discusses her new essay collection, THE WITCHES ARE COMING.
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Grounded by Circumstance: Tina Barr’s Green Target
Barr is an astonishing image-maker, adept in creating significance through anthimeria.
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Art Is Everything: Talking with Alex DiFrancesco
Alex DiFrancesco discusses their new novel, ALL CITY.
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The Last Book I Loved: Re-reading Dana Levin’s Banana Palace in 2019
In such a context, Dana Levin’s particular apocalypses deserve another look.
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Slouching Toward Vantage: A Conversation with Taneum Bambrick
Taneum Bambrick discusses her debut poetry collection, VANTAGE.
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The Crowtagonist at the End of the World: Talking with Kira Jane Buxton
Kira Jane Buxton discusses her debut novel, HOLLOW KINGDOM.
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A Very Precarious Moment: Talking with Karen Russell
Karen Russell discusses her newest collection, ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
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Monarchs, Motherhood, and Transformation
These butterflies needed help, and I wanted to deliver them my garden.
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Climate Fiction and the Great American Desert
Poison now snakes into what’s left of the water.
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The Poem Remembers: A Conversation with David Baker
David Baker discusses SWIFT: NEW & SELECTED POEMS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Fictions by Niyah Morris
The lasso was a gaping mouth that opened wide enough, we hoped, to swallow the cloud.
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What Lurks Below: A Conversation with Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Aridjis discusses her forthcoming novel, SEA MONSTERS.
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Still Standing
I whisper into my own ear: you are safe, you don’t need to run.
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On Saviors and Superheroes: A Conversation with Adam Nemett
Adam Nemett discusses his debut novel, WE CAN SAVE US ALL.
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An Anthology of Poetry for a Planet in Crisis
Help Copper Canyon Press publish HERE: POEMS FOR THE PLANET!
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Part Skeptic, Part Believer: A Conversation with Cai Emmons
Cai Emmons discusses her forthcoming novel, WEATHER WOMAN.
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Here Is the Physical Proof: Talking with Elizabeth Rush
Elizabeth Rush discusses RISING: DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN SHORE.
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Fidelity to Deep Emotion: Lauren Groff’s Florida
The sentence is Groff’s most fertile ground.
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Spotlight: “Fashion Dos and Don’ts 2050: Climate Apocalypse Edition”
A satiric comic that looks at the grim reality of climate catastrophe through the humorous lens of fashion tips.
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A Megaphone for a Generation: Coming of Age at the End of Nature
[T]his generation is no longer sure that the future will be better than the past.
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