The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cynthia Dewi Oka
Cynthia Dewi Oka discusses her new collection, FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY.
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Join NOW!Cynthia Dewi Oka discusses her new collection, FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY.
...moreIn this lush and raw account, musicians play, voices harmonize and then separate again, town after Alaska town rolls by… and Waterfield searches for home.
...moreJust the two of us. Daddy and me. Charro and escaramuza.
...moreIt hadn’t felt like teasing. It felt the way it always did these days—that I had disappointed her.
...moreIt’s true that when I speak of machines I also mean dimensions.
...moreAs soon as life begins, its impulse is to divide.
...morePatsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.
...moreAlison Stine discusses her new novel, ROAD OUT OF WINTER.
...moreI won’t say I brought this on myself, but I wrote it. I wrote it myself.
...moreThis is both the exercise and exorcism of motherhood.
...moreI love that—working towards not having regret, in art and in life.
...moreSimon(e) van Saarloos discusses PLAYING MONOGAMY.
...moreMarika Lindholm discusses WE GOT THIS: SOLO MOM STORIES OF GRIT, HEART, AND HUMOR.
...moreI want them to know that heart work is hard work, but worth the struggle.
...moreDesiree Cooper discusses her debut collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, what mother-writers need, and why motherhood is the only story she’s ever told.
...moreIn Episode 12 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, January Gill O’Neil chats about her new collection, Misery Islands, writing pop culture into poetry, and the Red Sox.
...moreTaking this leap of faith alone has drawn a network around me in numbers stronger than if I had conceived a child inside a traditional relationship and family. In the big and small moments of this new kind of passage, I’ve found love and connection in the intersecting hubs.
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