The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Beth Alvarado
Beth Alvarado discusses her new story collection, JILLIAN IN THE BORDERLANDS.
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Posts Tagged: death
Out of What Remains: Talking with Jacinta V. White
Jacinta V. White discusses her collection of poetry, RESURRECTING THE BONES.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Chop Money”
Mal’ Atta attacked with a slew of sensory assaults.
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The Hope of Time: Talking with Judith H. Montgomery
Judith H. Montgomery discusses her latest poetry collection, MERCY.
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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Rosanna Warren
“Any good poem has form and acts out its meanings in form.”
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Divestment
Secrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sumita Chakraborty
Sumita Chakraborty discusses her debut collection, ARROW.
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Cutting to the Core: A Conversation with Tara Isabel Zambrano
Tara Isabel Zambrano discusses DEATH, DESIRE, AND OTHER DESTINATIONS.
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A Little Bit Irreverent, a Little Bit Truthful: Talking with Megan Cummins
Megan Cummins discusses her debut story collection, IF THE BODY ALLOWS IT.
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What Is (and Isn’t) Held in the Light: Diane Zinna’s The All-Night Sun
Trauma’s wing conceals and reveals.
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Form Revealing Itself: A Conversation with Liz Prato
Liz Prato discusses her essay collection VOLCANOES, PALM TREES, AND PRIVILEGE.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Reina with White Roses
A block away from my house, Reina killed herself.
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Straining Toward “Memory Care”: Victoria Chang’s Obit
For Chang, figurative language proves unsatisfactory when compared to the depth of her grief.
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Voices on Addiction: Primary Source
Anything we write now is a primary source.
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A Cave of Catharsis: Code by Charlotte Pence
Grief sneaks up on you, and so does this book.
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Resistance Against Erasure: Talking with Marianne Chan
Marianne Chan discusses her debut poetry collection, ALL HEATHENS.
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Losing the World
When we begin life, language is play.
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Permadeath
All your efforts and still you must reckon with this end.
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Flesh and Blood: A Conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko discusses her story collection, YOUR AD COULD GO HERE.
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Variants of Unknown Significance
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Wild Animals
I searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #217: Sue William Silverman
“Our memories are always in flux.”
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Voices on Addiction: Call Us Beautiful
I’m saying people can be imperfect and still be remembered as beautiful.
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Love and Loss in the Time of Pandemics: Talking with Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
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Everything Is Alive: Dunce by Mary Ruefle
Ruefle’s memories are as alive as the bodies holding them.
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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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It’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life
My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
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A Vocabulary for Apostates
I needed to reshape the definitions of words that were used against me.
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