From the Archive | Spotlight Comic: “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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Posts Tagged: environmental crisis
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Cai Emmons
Cai Emmons discusses her new novel, SINKING ISLANDS.
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Reimagining Place in the Pandemic
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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Stitching the Sea Together: A Conversation with Kathryn Smith
Kathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
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What Am I Fighting For?: A Conversation with Deborah A. Miranda
Deborah A. Miranda discusses her new collection of poetry, ALTAR FOR BROKEN THINGS.
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A Quintessential Quarantine Read: Paige Lewis’s Space Struck
Narratives, reflections—“bright particulars,” every one.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #229: Joshua Harmon
“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”
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On Empathy, Complexity, and Whimsy: Talking with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil discusses her new book, WORLD OF WONDERS.
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In Protest of a Body that Refuses to End
All I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.
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Losing Paradise
What my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.
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Radical Enough
I still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.
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On Loss of Land and Loss of Girlhood: Taneum Bambrick’s Vantage
Girlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
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Man vs Man vs Nature: Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch
So begins an odyssey of survival. Will they make it?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Thread: American Garbage
The molecules are valuable even if the plastic we see is not.
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Picking the Green Path: A Conversation with Ansley Simpson
“The green path takes far more work to even recognize—it takes bushwhacking.”
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