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From the Outside In: Talking with Ellene Glenn Moore

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • October 8, 2021
Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.
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What to Read When You Want to Reclaim Your Time

  • The Rumpus
  • July 6, 2018
Books that center us and offer new perspectives.
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Safety Nets: On Seeing Movies with My Children

  • Shannon Lell
  • February 23, 2017
There’s no blueprint for any of this. If there were, I would have read it by now.
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  • Brandon Hicks
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Author Photos, and What I’ve Learned From Them

  • Brandon Hicks
  • May 1, 2016
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Laurie Jean Cannady

  • Remica Bingham-Risher
  • November 15, 2015
The author of the new memoir Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul talks about growing up impoverished, abused, and in love with words.
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The Ways We Speak

  • Sarah Katz
  • October 28, 2015
We suffer, after all, not because of the ways we speak, but because of the ways we exclude ourselves with internalized external narratives about how different we feel from others.
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Nothing Left To Give

  • Alex Norcia
  • November 7, 2014
Coming across a fiftieth anniversary edition copy of Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, Ruth Margalit examines, for the New Yorker, the meaning of this book, especially in the context of…
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Attention, Attention

  • Heidi Sistare
  • May 8, 2013
Within the crowd is a bald-headed, bearded man. He carries a sketchpad that, if he were sitting cross-legged, would be big enough to cover his knees. He is not a reporter. “The funeral is over, but the corpse is still grooving,” he writes. The man is Shel Silverstein.
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“Heck yes I’m willing to do this, I love peanut butter!”

  • Charley Locke
  • June 26, 2012
Have you been searching for a collection of peanut-butter related news to no avail? Look no further: There’s a peanut-butter craving thief on the prowl in Ohio, who comes into…
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  • Last Book I Loved

The Last Poem I Loved: “The Devil and Billy Markham” by Shel Silverstein

  • Roy Camarillo
  • January 3, 2012
Having been an English teacher with an undergrad degree in Journalism, one might think I read a lot of quality work, but I don’t. I read news and posts that…
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