What to Read When You Want to Be a Patch of Moss
There is pleasure in being seen and there is pleasure in disappearing. Wade in to the swamp, pull out a book, wipe off the slime and sit on the edge to become invisible.
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Join NOW!There is pleasure in being seen and there is pleasure in disappearing. Wade in to the swamp, pull out a book, wipe off the slime and sit on the edge to become invisible.
...moreA reading list for spring and spring cleaning!
...moreKate Baer discusses her new poetry collection, HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL.
...moreJeri Frederickson discusses her debut collection, YOU ARE NOT LOST.
...moreAvni Vyas discusses her debut poetry collection, LITTLE GOD.
...moreEllene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.
...moreBiespiel offers a number of best practices—not just for writing poems, but for living a creative life.
...moreEric Tran discusses his new collection, THE GUTTER SPREAD GUIDE TO PRAYER.
...moreHoward Axelrod discusses his new book, THE STARS IN OUR POCKETS.
...moreChange happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
...moreLooking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
...moreAdrienne Brodeur discusses her new memoir, WILD GAME.
...morePoets Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox discuss their writing.
...more“What do you do when everything falls apart? Anything you want.”
...moreShaindel Beers discusses her third collection, SECURE YOUR OWN MASK.
...moreCreation begets death which begets more creation.
...more“I had to save my own life. I had the right to save my own life.”
...moreAmy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.
...moreRumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
...moreA go-to list for refreshing, down-to-earth, spot-on spiritual reading.
...moreWith impermanence and “praise for the devil” all around, it’s a gift to rediscover joy, no matter how fleeting.
...moreLaurette Folk discusses her new collection, Totem Beasts, the role of meditation and dreams in her work, and “seeking some heightened experience in the conscious world.”
...moreA visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
...moreIt’s old news that there’s poetry in decomposition, but welcome news that Jersey has such an astutely musical young voice.
...moreIsaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton on their new book Knives & Ink, cooking with pigs’ heads, and long-distance collaboration.
...moreFeeling anxious about today’s election? Brain Pickings gives us a look at how writer Mary Oliver copes when times are tough: The second world—the world of literature—offered me, besides the pleasures of form, the sustentation of empathy (the first step of what Keats called negative capability) and I ran for it. I relaxed in it. I stood […]
...moreEssayist Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s obsession with author photos leads to authorial reflections on gender, representation, and what writers owe the public in “Occupy Author Photo: On Elena Ferrante, Privacy, and Women Writers” at The Millions. Starting with her own experiences and branching out to Mary Oliver, Sarah Howe, and eventually Elena Ferrante, she calls for […]
...moreMonica Sok discusses her award-winning poetry chapbook Year Zero, her interest in Southeast Asian history, and living in isolation.
...moreAuthor Brenda Miller discusses the lyric essay, her “poet self” who always bleeds through, and what she’s writing about next.
...moreKaren Salyer McElmurray talks about academia, the relationship between flaws and perfection, writing memoir, and the “tapestry” of writers who inspire her.
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