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TORCH: Lessons From My Grandma on Language and Silence

The sounds I made were pleasant to my ears, but that’s all they were to me. I was too young to understand what culture and heritage meant, too young to understand the reasons behind memorizing ancient poems.

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This Week in Books: The Color She Gave Gravity

Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and…

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Interrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair

To be forced to speak in the language of the colonist, the language of the oppressor, while also carrying within us the storm of Jamaican patois, we live under a constant hurricane of our doubleness.

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Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Six Erasure Poems by Alison Thumel

Give amnesty. / Which birthright / is perpetual / and whose is made? / One sentence / should be kept: / I had a body / to believe.

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Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Three Poems by Amy Strauss Friedman

I thought that hearts were meant to function as uteri, / to grow linings that bleed clotty when life won’t adhere, / to stall like rusty engines in barren winters, / unprepared for the seasonal shift.

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The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles on recording her new poetry record Aloha/irish trees, the relationship between poetry and comedy, and finding safety in social media.

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SquareRoot of Love: Valentine’s Day in Paris – A WinePoetryFilm Project

Love. Because our collective survival depends on it.

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A Recommended Reading List for Trump’s America

We asked nineteen authors what books they'd suggest as recommended reading in light of America's new political reality.

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Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Four Poems Celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks’s Centennial

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Against Hatred

We poets do not believe the world belongs to us. Our existence is a miracle, and yet we know our world is limited.

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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Tara Betts

Tara Betts discusses her newest collection, Break the Habit, the burden placed on black women artists to be both artist and activist, and why writing is rooted in identity.

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The Rumpus Interview with Dawn Lundy Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin discusses her most recent collection, Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life.

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