Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Sarah Ghazal Ali, Erin L. McCoy, and Tawanda Mulalu.
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...moreCarly Inghram discusses her new poetry collection, THE ANIMAL INDOORS.
...moreI’m fascinated that the speaker’s harm disappearing is a function of being in Hell.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreAngie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
...moreAn exclusive look at the cover of Arisa White’s forthcoming collection, WHO’S YOUR DADDY.
...moreMegan Fernandes discusses her new collection of poetry, GOOD BOYS.
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreRumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to black history past, present, and future.
...moreKyle Dargan discusses his new collection, ANAGNORISIS.
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreKatie Ford discusses her new collection, IF YOU HAVE TO GO.
...more“The cusp of errand and awe is where poetry always is for me.”
...more“They are poems before sonnets.”
...moreRumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
...moreHere’s what we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
...moreRumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month!
...moreWhile we can’t promise that 2018 won’t find us facing more political upheaval, we can assure you that there will be great literature to offer moments of escape and inspiration.
...moreA visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
...moreOn Thursday night, May 25, an amazing event will take place outside a BART train station in the Mission District of San Francisco, as it has every Thursday night for the past fourteen years. If you were to pass by, you might not even notice what is taking place. The corner of 16th Street and Mission […]
...more“Song of the Gourd” is like an eye roll at this sort of gusto about leaving the Southland.
...moreAt the Poetry Foundation, Sara Ivry interviews a host of poets on the occasion of Cave Canem’s twentieth anniversary. Robin Coste Lewis points to the brilliance of founders Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in situating Cave Canem above the fray: We’re here to write and to write about our own experiences, our own cultures, sometimes, sometimes […]
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Sandra Meek about her new collection An Ecology of Elsewhere, writing landscapes, and the power of syntactic density.
...moreMaybe my faith that the profoundest feeling we’re offered by art that really hits us deep in is a setting free, a series of screens or horizons obliterated somehow lovingly.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Camille Rankine about her new book Incorrect Merciful Impulses, history, and trying to be a writer every day.
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