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Apples, Sonnet Crowns, and Other Containers of Trauma: Talking with Jeri Frederickson

By Janet Rodriguez

December 20th, 2021

Jeri Frederickson discusses her debut collection, YOU ARE NOT LOST.

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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2020

By The Rumpus

February 28th, 2020

A selection of AWP 2020 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!

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Notable Chicago: 11/15–11/21

By Jonathan McDaniel

November 15th, 2019

Literary events in and around Chicago this week!

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National Poetry Month Day 4: “Sawed-Through Link” by Marilyn Nelson

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 4th, 2013

Marilyn Nelson, today’s featured poet, wrote a series of ghazals to accompany some images by illustrator Philippe Lardy, who gave us permission to include a copy of the painting which inspired Nelson’s poem. Sawed-Through Link

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Marilyn Nelson on Fortune’s Bones

By Seth Fischer

October 18th, 2009

Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem is the poet Marilyn Nelson’s rendering of a really horrific true story about a slave owner in Connecticut who dissected the slave Fortune’s bones and “hung them in his house for a little medical school.” “My first thought,” said Nelson, “was what would it be like to be Dinah, Fortune’s […]

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