Reading Whitman While White
It is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
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Join NOW!It is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
...moreActive Reception writes into the place where language fails.
...moreCarly Inghram discusses her new poetry collection, THE ANIMAL INDOORS.
...moreJoshua Henkin discusses his new novel, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreJonathan Parks-Ramage discusses his debut novel, YES, DADDY.
...moreRachel Genn discusses her new novel, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON.
...moreWhat does it mean to be free?
...moreShe knows how to yell, but wouldn’t yell if her life depended on it.
...moreAlisson Wood discusses her debut memoir, BEING LOLITA.
...moreEducation, work, study: these were not simply a means to an end.
...more“I work slowly, from sentence to sentence, and attempt to stay attuned to opportunity.”
...moreRon A. Austin discusses his debut novel, AVERY COLT IS A THIEF, A SNAKE, A LIAR.
...moreA poem by Jessica Smith yields the feeling that atoms of meaning vibrate, then come together.
...moreMiranda Popkey discusses her debut novel, TOPICS OF CONVERSATION.
...moreGabriel Birnbaum discusses his new album, NOT ALONE.
...morePatrick Coleman discusses his debut novel, THE CHURCHGOER.
...more“It’s cruel to not say, I see you. I know you exist.”
...moreCan one love one’s country into a better version of itself? And can that love better the self?
...morePoems and rope that make me plumb my depths and stretch my limits of my poetic language: that’s the worthwhile project.
...moreDebra Monroe talks about her new memoir, My Unsentimental Education, the future of the genre, and how the Internet has changed what it means to be human.
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