Reimagining Place in the Pandemic
This collection suggests again and again that poets and poetry are conjoined with such places—found on a map and indelibly mapped to the psyche.
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Posts Tagged: Paterson
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #136: Shy Watson
“I do think when I write it’s kind of therapy or having to tell someone everything or maybe writing it gets it out of my head?”
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Mullen
Acclaimed poet and writer Laura Mullen talks about her new book, Complicated Grief, obsession, germ theory, and exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.
...morePaterson’s Great Falls, inspiration for writers, named national park
President Barack Obama signed legislation on Monday naming the Great Falls on the Passaic River in Paterson, N.J. a national historic park. The 77-foot falls, site of early American industrial plants, has also inspired American writers. The great 20th century poets William Carlos Williams, whose epic work “Paterson” used the falls and the river as […]
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