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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Posts Tagged: Gaston Bachelard
Finding Meaning in Where the Why Leads: Talking with Kyle Beachy
Kyle Beachy discusses his new memoir, THE MOST FUN THING.
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The Worlds We Inhabit: Home: New Arabic Poems
These writers expand the meaning of the word home by virtue of their lives and their writing.
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What to Read When You’re a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #203: Molly Spencer
“I would say the primary role of speech in these poems is to attempt something. To try.”
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More Than Ordinary: If the House by Molly Spencer
Attention—where it is, where it is not—pervades If the House.
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Breaking Through: Gayle Brandeis Discusses The Art of Misdiagnosis
Gayle Brandeis discusses her memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis, out today from Beacon Press.
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Michel Tournier and the Novel of Ideas
Do novels think?
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My Dollhouse, Myself: Miniature Histories
She pauses and says it again. “In my head, I live in my dollhouse.”
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“I was traveling and barely understood how I’d ended up there on a Ferris wheel at night, dangling above a town I didn’t know, thousands of miles from anyone I knew well, looking out at the dark cliffs, ocean, and sky. The universe finally took on for me the full magnitude of its breadth and […]
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