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Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with torrin greathouse

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • January 26, 2021
torrin a. greathouse discusses her debut collection, WOUND FROM THE MOUTH OF A WOUND.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry

  • The Rumpus
  • April 12, 2019
Rumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month!
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What to Read When You Want to Feel Thankful

  • The Rumpus
  • November 3, 2017
Kick off the holiday season with a list of books that Rumpus editors are thankful for!
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Abeer Hoque

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • February 22, 2017
Abeer Hoque talks about coming of age in the predominantly white suburbs of Pittsburgh, rewriting her memoir manuscript ten times, and looking for poetry in prose.
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Of Ocean and Earth

  • Stephanie Bento
  • May 11, 2016
Over at the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani reviews Ocean Vuong’s new collection of heartbreakingly gorgeous poems, Night Sky With Exit Wounds. Kakutani writes: There is a powerful emotional undertow…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • May 2, 2016
First, we close out National Poetry Month with Sophie Klahr breaking down literary conventions in “Slant,” and Sandra Simonds offering two powerful poems about sexuality and shame. Meanwhile, Brandon Hicks illustrates what he has…
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A Poet’s Arrival

  • Theodora Messalas
  • April 15, 2016
The New Yorker profiles Ocean Vuong, who muses on the English language, growing up around women, Frank O’Hara, and the vestigial nature of clichés. And with his first book of…
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