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The Subconscious Repository of Weird Things: A Conversation with Ananda Lima

  • Gabriella Souza
  • April 4, 2022
Poetry allows me to say the thing without a million conjectures. It leaves a lot of space and allows words to resonate and connect without me having to take you there . . . because of the conventions of poetry, I can say things that are understood as a gate to the truth.
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Rites of Passage: Steven Toussaint’s Lay Studies

  • Michael Angel Martín
  • August 14, 2020
We are liturgical animals, Toussaint’s poems suggest, designed to satisfy some ultimate desire with worship.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #199: Stuart M. Ross

  • Andy Mozina
  • November 7, 2019
“Ty is, you know, tied in a knot. On a very old shoe.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Max Ritvo

  • Sarah Blake
  • September 21, 2016
Max Ritvo passed away on August 23, 2016. Earlier this summer, he spoke with Sarah Blake about his debut collection Four Reincarnations, writing with and about cancer, and how language is a game.
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The Rumpus Interview with Brian Blanchfield

  • Ryan Krull
  • June 15, 2016
Poet and writer Brian Blanchfield talks about his essay collection Proxies, touring in support of a prose collection versus a poetry collection, and frottage.
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The Conversation: Jeremy Clark and Thiahera Nurse

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  • March 29, 2016
I’m thinking about the difference between “I stay somewhere” and “I live somewhere.”
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