The Big, Mangy One
I am transfixed with the probability of earthquakes.
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Posts Tagged: earthquakes
Bear Witness: What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J. A. Chancy
Remember us, the characters seem to beg of the reader, imagined mirrors of the real lives lost and mourned.
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Finding Firm Ground: A Conversation with Nadia Owusu
Nadia Owusu discusses her debut memoir, AFTERSHOCKS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Mother We Share
This is what happens when I listen. I react.
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The Miracle Bowl
Praise the family that tethers me. Praise the well-used kitchen utensils and scoured mixing bowls and butter knives, thick slabs of jelly on the bread.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Iris Dunkle
Iris Jamahl Dunkle on her new collection Interrupted Geographies, writing against the pastoral tradition, the power of persona poems, and the town of Pithole.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Losing at Memory
But I didn’t understand, then, how important memory is, for how do we know who we are without memory? How does anyone else know who we are, but for their memories of us?
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How Gone Is My Valley?
It does us all a disservice to separate the Valley’s current industrial action from that of its natural environment, human history and broader political context.
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Field Trip to the Earthquake Lab, 2010
The plan was not to cause an earthquake. The USGS would tell you that this is nearly impossible. They would tell you that humans are just too insignificant to affect the seismicity of our planet.
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If you haven’t already, take a little gander at our posts from this weekend! “How’s your day been?” and other things women have said to Calenture in Australian brothels. Like “Do you mind if I drink from your glass?” and “Don’t get it in my hair or I’ll kill you.” Steven Church delves into that […]
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Tracking Quakes
I’d lived in California for over six years and still hadn’t experienced a quintessential California quake, still hadn’t come close to what Schopenhauer might call the “dynamic sublime,” the encounter with something powerful enough to destroy you.
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