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  • Book Club Blog

Why I Chose José Olivarez’s Citizen Illegal for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club

  • Brian Spears
  • July 16, 2018
Here's what we're reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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  • Poetry
  • Rumpus Original

The Conversation: Jayson Smith and A. H. Jerriod Avant

  • The Conversation
  • April 2, 2016
My responsibility is to not be negligent and cause unnecessary harm. To a listener or reader. My allegiance is only to truth.
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The Conversation: José Olivarez and Nate Marshall

  • The Conversation
  • April 1, 2016
There are so many spaces in this country where I feel unsafe particularly because of my body.
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The Conversation: Joshua Bennett and Camonghne Felix

  • The Conversation
  • March 31, 2016
What scares me in the current work is how much I trust the concept, what I’m trying to achieve.
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The Conversation: Angel Nafis, Safia Elhillo, and Elizabeth Acevedo

  • The Conversation
  • March 30, 2016
I don’t think it ever fully sunk in for me that I even live in America.
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The Conversation: Jeremy Clark and Thiahera Nurse

  • The Conversation
  • March 29, 2016
I’m thinking about the difference between “I stay somewhere” and “I live somewhere.”
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The Conversation: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib and Paul Tran

  • The Conversation
  • March 28, 2016
The sitting down to write, convincing myself that my voice matters, even though there are so many telling me that it doesn’t.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • March 28, 2016
First, in the Saturday Essay, Tyrese L. Coleman unearths the history behind her surname and the results of a DNA test. The results say she is 69% African, 33% originating from Benin, 29% European, and less…
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The Conversation: Desiree Bailey and Sean DesVignes

  • The Conversation
  • March 27, 2016
For me, intersectionality is a reality that I can’t escape.
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  • Rumpus Original

The Conversation: Cortney Lamar Charleston and Danez Smith

  • The Conversation
  • March 26, 2016
The South is my favorite cousin.
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  • Poetry

The Conversation: Prologue

  • The Conversation
  • March 25, 2016
Dear Reader, For the past year, we, Aziza Barnes and Nabila Lovelace, The Founders of The Conversation, debated how we could create space for folk we love, whose work is critical, in…
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