Posts Tagged: climate crisis

How It Would Feel to Be Free: Olivia Laing’s Everybody

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Pleasures and possibilities, though, come hard-won in this book.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Wendy J. Fox

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Wendy J. Fox discusses her new story collection, WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.

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Bright Buoy, Dark Sea: Kelli Russell Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides

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Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.

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Lamentation for Songbirds

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If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Cai Emmons

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Cai Emmons discusses her new novel, SINKING ISLANDS.

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Reimagining Place in the Pandemic

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This collection suggests again and again that poets and poetry are conjoined with such places—found on a map and indelibly mapped to the psyche.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Thomas Farber

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“As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Callum Angus

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“When I first came out as trans, I learned a lot from trans youth; they taught me so much.”

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Stitching the Sea Together: A Conversation with Kathryn Smith

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Kathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise

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For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.

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The Privilege of Anxiety: Mark O’Connell’s Notes from an Apocalypse

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What does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #229: Joshua Harmon

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“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”

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In Protest of a Body that Refuses to End

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All I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.

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Losing Paradise

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What my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.

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Radical Enough

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I still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.

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A Vocabulary for Apostates

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I needed to reshape the definitions of words that were used against me.

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On Loss of Land and Loss of Girlhood: Taneum Bambrick’s Vantage

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Girlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

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Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers discusses her new collection, THE TILT TORN AWAY FROM THE SEASONS.

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All These Ostriches: A Conversation with R. Eric Thomas

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R. Eric Thomas discusses his debut memoir-in-essays, HERE FOR IT.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #206: Tina May Hall

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“[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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Lesbian Poetry’s Vatic Voices: The Specter of Ecocatastrophe

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Change happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.

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The Climate of Feeling: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk

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Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.

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The Planet Will Survive Us: A Conversation with Liz Breazeale

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Liz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.

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Between Sex and Death: Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets

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Survival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.

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Turning Purple: Blood Feast

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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

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Lindy West discusses her new essay collection, THE WITCHES ARE COMING.

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