Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Sarah Ghazal Ali, Erin L. McCoy, and Tawanda Mulalu.
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...moreAs the book continues, [Laux] traces a growing understanding of loss.
...moreMalcolm Tariq discusses his debut collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
...moreDorianne Laux discusses her newly released collection, ONLY AS THE DAY IS LONG.
...moreThe child is born of them, yet is other to them; they work on behalf, and yet despite, and also against her.
...moreKatie Ford discusses her new collection, IF YOU HAVE TO GO.
...moreQueer literature isn’t a box to unlock so that it can unlock me.
...moreDiego Báez reviews Laurie Ann Guerrero’s A Crown for Gumecindo today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreThere has much apprehension following last week’s vote in favor of a British withdrawal from the EU. Some are predicting what the change will mean for the region’s music industry. PJ Harvey reacted to the vote by stopping mid-performance to read John Donne’s “No Man Is an Island.” Liam and Noel Gallagher, Bat for Lashes, Blood Orange, Lilly Allen, Disclosure, and […]
...moreIt is often said that who controls the past controls the future but Nietzsche is one of the first to anticipate the power of speculation—that he who controls the future, controls the present.
...morePoet Rich Villar discusses his activism, his admiration for Pablo Neruda, the importance of vernacular, and why love poetry may be the most political poetry of all.
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