Learning the Hard Way: A Conversation with Kate Baer
Kate Baer discusses her new poetry collection, HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL.
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Join NOW!Kate Baer discusses her new poetry collection, HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL.
...moreComposition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.
...moreDonika Kelly discusses her new poetry collection, THE RENUNCIATIONS.
...moreBut look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
...moretorrin a. greathouse discusses her debut collection, WOUND FROM THE MOUTH OF A WOUND.
...moreJinJin Xu discusses her debut chapbook, THERE IS STILL SINGING IN THE AFTERLIFE.
...moreSarah J. Sloat discusses her new collection of erasure poetry, HOTEL ALMIGHTY.
...moreJacinta V. White discusses her collection of poetry, RESURRECTING THE BONES.
...moreThis book is a marriage of the real world and the imagination, the nexus of nonfiction and fiction.
...moreMorgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
...morePoet Linda Bierds discusses her newest collection, THE HARDY TREE.
...moreIsobel O’Hare discusses her debut full-length collection, ALL THIS CAN BE YOURS.
...morePercival Everett discusses his newest work, THE BOOK OF TRAINING BY COLONEL HAP THOMPSON.
...moreO / ion subdivided into // Empire
...moreRumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to black history, past and present.
...moreBarbara Jane Reyes discusses her new collection Invocation to Daughters, poly-vocality in poetry, and the importance of centering women’s voices.
...moreAurvi Sharma discusses her memoir-in-progress, finding inspiration in ancient women’s voices, and writing against erasure.
...moreGive amnesty. / Which birthright / is perpetual / and whose is made? / One sentence / should be kept: / I had a body / to believe.
...moreIn an essay on author authenticity for The Millions, Alcy Levy examines Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure—about a black author whose own satirical novel is taken seriously—in light of recent literary identity shake-ups such as James Frey and Michael Derrick Hudson, who changed his name to Yi-Fen Chou to get a poem published: This exposes a major […]
...moreAsexuality is often left out from discussions around queer visibility in pop culture. At Bitch Media, Lucy Mihajlich shares how she was told by an agent that her young adult dystopian trilogy, Interface, could be the next Hunger Games—but that it needed romance: It’s particularly hard to find asexual characters in young adult fiction, which is […]
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