A Poetics of Questions: The Bower by Connie Voisine
To learn is perhaps Voisine’s primary goal in writing the poems in The Bower.
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Posts Tagged: Maggie Smith
What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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Owning Your Piles: A Conversation with Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith discusses her new book, KEEP MOVING.
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Notable Online: 10/11–10/17
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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What to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2020
Rumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors share their favorite writing that speaks to women’s history past, present, and future.
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2020
A selection of AWP 2020 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Exceptional Pain and Power: Lima :: Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
See how visceral? Before I opened this book, I felt I was already inside it.
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What to Read When 2020 Is Just Around the Corner
Books releasing in the first half of 2020 that we can’t wait to read!
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What to Read When You Want to Rethink Motherhood
Rumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to challenge traditional views of motherhood!
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The Mentor Series: Maggie Smith and Kathy Fagan
Poet Maggie Smith interviews her mentor, Kathy Fagan.
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2019
A selection of AWP 2019 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors share their favorite writing that speaks to women’s history past, present, and future.
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2018!
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Next Letter in the Mail: Maggie Smith
Our next Letter in the Mail is from Maggie Smith!
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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What to Read When Beach Weather Arrives
Rumpus editors suggest some of their favorite summertime reads!
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Learning to Grow Where Planted: Maggie Smith’s Good Bones
Part of looking closer is seeing what is hard to face, and part of having courage is addressing what seems futile.
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family, from recent 2017 releases to longtime literary loves.
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Congratulations to our 2017 Pushcart nominees!
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A Hinging Thing: Talking with Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith discusses her new collection Good Bones, how motherhood has changed her writing, and what it felt like to have a poem go viral.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Maggie Smith
What do we do? We birth the new citizens / & answer their bodies with our bodies. // We rock the new citizens to sleep. / We clothe them with skin & stamp // their passports with milk.
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The Well Speaks of its Own Poison by Maggie Smith
Diana Whitney reviews Maggie Smith’s The Well Speaks of its Own Poison today in Rumpus Poetry.
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