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Not Looking Away: The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • January 29, 2021
But look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
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The Power of the Crone: Ursula K. Le Guin’s No Time to Spare

  • Jody Keisner
  • February 19, 2020
Sweet, nurturing, platitude-accepting granny Le Guin is not.
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Voices on Addiction: Jokerman

  • Dorian Fox
  • November 25, 2019
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
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Beauty in the Ugly of Living: Talking with Alex Poppe

  • Patricia Ann McNair
  • September 20, 2019
Alex Poppe discusses her new novel, MOXIE.
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My Burning Tongue

  • Patricia Lawler Kenet
  • June 10, 2019
What price have we paid for our silence?
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Spotlight: “The Crone’s Guide to Menopause”

  • Ruth Halpern
  • August 14, 2018
The sunlit meadow is boring. We leave it behind.
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Harley and Me by Bernadette Murphy

  • Eileen Favorite
  • July 3, 2016
Eileen Favorite reviews Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life by Bernadette Murphy today in Rumpus Books.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Hot Thing

  • Rebecca Kuder
  • February 21, 2016
I wake in the dark in bed and there’s a furnace, a turncoat thermostat inside my body; there is no limit, there is no overdoodling, no crescendo. No hot enough, only hotter.
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The Pause That Does Not Refresh

  • Lyz Lenz
  • June 4, 2015
You hear a lot about hot flashes, but hot flashes are the least of it, totally inconsequential in every way: you get as hot as a steam iron at odd…
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