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Voices on Addiction: Fallen

  • Nicole R. Zimmerman
  • September 22, 2020
There is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
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Others Would Tell Me Nothing Is Mine: Talking with Barbara Jane Reyes

  • ire’ne lara silva
  • September 8, 2020
Barbara Jane Reyes discusses her new collection, LETTERS TO A YOUNG BROWN GIRL.
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Queen of That Universe

  • Jillayna Adamson
  • September 2, 2020
The realm of sound yields to me, sits at my feet. I can switch on. Or not.
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When the Healing Place Exploded

  • Zeina Hashem Beck
  • September 1, 2020
Clothes, plants, and broken aluminum doors on balconies—all was inside out.
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Between Lightness and Shadow: A Conversation with Kapka Kassabova

  • Sarah Haas
  • August 21, 2020
Kapka Kassabova discusses her latest book, TO THE LAKE.
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Varied States of Breaking

  • Grace Roberson
  • August 5, 2020
This, I learned, is what rawness tasted like. I wanted more.
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Mothers and Daughters: Girl by Veronica Golos

  • Devon Balwit
  • July 17, 2020
Bodies become something to escape from or leave behind.
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Body Inheritance

  • Anna Held
  • June 23, 2020
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Constant Motion: Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

  • Juan Luis Guzmán
  • June 17, 2020
More than a longing for an origin story, Hernandez Castillo’s memoir is an attempt to bring the invisible to light.
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Paranoid Reality: Monica Sok’s A Nail the Evening Hangs On

  • Phuong T. Vuong
  • June 12, 2020
A loss is a loss. Neither the circle nor the form can be completed.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky

  • Grace Talusan
  • April 16, 2020
“I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”
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Voices on Addiction: Katie Calls

  • Rebecca Brenner
  • March 31, 2020
I want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
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