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The Rumpus Review of [insert] boy by Danez Smith
In this sense, the book is a “coming-of-age” story and “spiritual quest” as much as a seething commentary on the catastrophe effected by the disease of contemporary racism and white supremacy.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jonathan Travelstead
I try to…consider the writing process as seriously as I do entering a house with black smoke puffing from its eaves.
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The Forgotten Poet
You could visit India and never hear the name Rabindranath Tagore. In fact, if you don’t live in India, you may well have never known Rabindranath Tagore existed. But this was not always the case: recipient of the Nobel Prize…
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A Literary Q&A, Literally
I’m not interested in poems that simply narrate or enact a performance of a life while the reader watches. It’s important that the work feel distilled and transformed. Poems that are elliptical or take a sidelong approach are more compelling,…
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Sound Takes: Everyone Was a Bird
Grasscut’s bones may be electronic, but its heartbeat is good and warm.
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Deep Pain and Deep Beauty
Deep pain and deep beauty oscillate throughout Sagawa’s work, often triggered in the same image. “Insects pierce green through the orchard,” she writes in “Like a Cloud.” “The sky has countless scars. The skin of the earth emerges there, burning…
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The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang
Anna Ziering reviews Mary Jo Bang’s The Last Two Seconds today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Shapiro
Susan Shapiro discusses her latest novel, What’s Never Said, her Instant Gratification Takes Too Long teaching method, and new anti-dating rules between faculty and students at universities such as Harvard and Yale.
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Excerpts From a Secret Prophecy by Joanna Klink
Rae Gouirand reviews Joanna Klink’s Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Where Are the Trees Going? by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Wendy Willis reviews Marilyn Hacker’s translation of Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Where Are the Trees Going?” today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Spotlight: James Kochalka and Sydney Lea’s “LEAF”
LEAF, a collaboration from cartoonist James Kochalka and poet Sydney Lea, can be read as a meditation on change, or on mortality.
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This World by Teddy Macker
Laura Haynes Collector reviews Teddy Macker’s This World today in Rumpus Poetry.