Hidden Just Beyond View: Jenny George’s The Dream of Reason
George interrupts us, clears her throat, makes us listen.
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Posts Tagged: poetry
Why I Chose Kyle Dargan’s Anagnorisis for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Here’s what we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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ENOUGH: One Day, That Tree Will Die
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Blood from a Door Nail: Talking with Susan Shapiro
Susan Shapiro discusses her forthcoming book THE BYLINE BIBLE.
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Between Bodies: The Undressing by Li-Young Lee
Yet the backyard cannot exist without the intimacy of the bedroom.
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I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You
Your words feel like shapes, like wooden blocks to clear out of the way.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Wasson
now tell me / we’ll make it // to the end / of our unanswerable lives
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Here Is the Physical Proof: Talking with Elizabeth Rush
Elizabeth Rush discusses RISING: DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN SHORE.
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Two Extraordinary Books: Bullets into Bells and Inquisition
The obscenities and tragedies of American life pile up with speed, and in quantities, that are appalling.
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The Evolution of Present-Day Greece: Talking with Nanos Valaoritis
Poet and author Nanos Valaoritis discusses the political and cultural situation in Greece today.
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How to Become a Poet: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones
“You don’t have to drink yourself into the Great American Poetry Masterpiece.”
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Hero and Villain: Emily Pérez’s House of Sugar, House of Stone
How hard it is to trust the difference between sacrifice and sabotage!
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Poet-Cosmologist: A Conversation with Bruce Beasley
“The cusp of errand and awe is where poetry always is for me.”
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Olzhas Suleimenov and the Power of Antinuclear Activism
Suleimenov the nomad, the climber of high walls of adventure.
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ENOUGH: So Much Remains Unsaid
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Terrance Hayes
“They are poems before sonnets.”
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Voices on Addiction: Four Poems by Nick Flynn
Behind DOOR NUMBER ONE / is a hammer, to break the wings off angels.
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A Kind of Communal History: Nepantla edited by Christopher Soto
Fundamentally, [Nepantla] is an act of history-making in verse.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kristin Chang
Like any good wick // I wear a gown of wax.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Amy Fusselman
Amy Fusselman discusses her new book, IDIOPHONE!
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Why I Chose José Olivarez’s Citizen Illegal for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Here’s what we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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Reinventing the World: José Olivarez’s Citizen Illegal
If they come for one of us, they will come for us all.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #144: Cathy Linh Che
“I think a safe space is one of deep listening and deep caring.”
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With Great Devotion: Julie Marie Wade’s Same-Sexy Marriage
Ultimately, this is a story in which redemption is not a possibility.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by José Olivarez
is it loyalty that keeps us / from tossing what’s not useful?
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What to Read When You’re Queer and of Color during Pride
Books by queer poets of color included in the Nepantla anthology!
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Bearing Witness: Because: A Lyric Memoir by Joshua Mensch
Because is a call for more stories with specifics so well-rendered.
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ENOUGH: Once You’re Trapped, You Lose the Game
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Peter Mishler
Peter Mishler discusses his debut collection, Fludde, the effect of ritual on poems, and childhood psychology.
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