What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Black History Month!
...moreRumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Black History Month!
...moreBut look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
...moreMolly Spencer shares a reading list to celebrate HINGE.
...moreKelly Harris-DeBerry discusses her debut poetry collection, FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME.
...moreMarci Calabretta Cancio-Bello discusses her debut poetry collection, HOUR OF THE OX.
...moreSumita Chakraborty discusses her debut collection, ARROW.
...moreTatyana Fazlalizadeh discusses her new book, STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE.
...moreCameron Awkward-Rich discusses his new collection, DISPATCH.
...moreHeather Christle discusses her debut work of nonfiction, THE CRYING BOOK.
...moreThe poems of Ridiculous Light are wary of hope yet keep thrumming toward it.
...moreIlya Kaminsky discusses his new collection, DEAF REPUBLIC.
...moreMy blackness, like my gender, was a sin.
...moreKeith S. Wilson discusses the cover of his forthcoming debut, FIELDNOTES ON ORDINARY LOVE, plus an exclusive first look!
...moreJennifer Martelli discusses her new collection of poetry, MY TARANTELLA.
...moreZighelboim almost has to break the form into pieces in order to speak; a fourteen-word poem is really only the echo of a sonnet.
...moreAllie Rowbottom discusses her debut memoir, JELL-O GIRLS.
...more“You don’t have to drink yourself into the Great American Poetry Masterpiece.”
...moreWe here at The Rumpus matriarchy are celebrating all of our feminist “mothers” this Mother’s Day!
...more“A poem is not a perfect puzzle, yet it is precisely a perfect puzzle.”
...moreRumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to black history, past and present.
...moreKamilah Aisha Moon discusses her new collection, Starshine & Clay, the power of naming, and the connection between creation and trauma.
...moreA visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
...moreAs truth becomes more elusive, as fact blends with fiction, we ought to take notice of how we categorize people, as categorization seems to be married to suppression, to disenfranchisement.
...moreYona Harvey talks about her path to becoming a poet, Winnie Mandela as an artistic inspiration, and what it means to write more publicly.
...moreWhat is lost still has substance, is malleable, can take on new impressions, and be molded again to our experience, often resulting in the most lasting force that determines how we see the world.
...moreJonathan Van Ness discusses his podcast, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, fierceness, curiosity, and hairstyles.
...moreSolmaz Sharif discusses her new collection Look, the difference between nearness and similarity, and the level of ownership we have over stories.
...moreJennifer Whitaker discusses her new collection The Blue Hour, persona poems, the violence in fairy tales, and writing about sexual abuse.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Honorée Fannone Jeffers about her new book The Glory Gets, vision poems, and writing about race.
...morePoetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
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