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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cynthia Dewi Oka

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 28, 2021
Cynthia Dewi Oka discusses her new collection, FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY.
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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #92: Perfection

  • Rick Moody
  • March 7, 2019
You will now find some version of the list below. It is imperfect.
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  • Allyson McCabe
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Franklin James Fisher’s “Rhoda”

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • September 14, 2017
I have to work to get the sounds, but then the magic kicks in.
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A Subtle Mocking from the Roots

  • Liz Wood
  • September 20, 2016
Jimmy Fallon might not have challenged Trump much during the presidential nominee’s recent appearance on The Tonight Show, but the Roots got in a pretty great dig of their own as the man…
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President Obama Slow Jams His Achievements

  • Liz Wood
  • June 13, 2016
The President of the United States appeared on The Tonight Show to join The Roots and Jimmy Fallon in slow jamming the news. The “Commander in Preach,” as Fallon called President Obama, is entering the last…
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Roots Jam Session Highlights

  • Liz Wood
  • March 9, 2016
This year’s Roots Jam Sessions featured a massive list of artists alongside the Roots crew: Gary Clark Jr., Tori Kelly, Bilal, Tinashe, Jeremih, Andra Day, John Legend, Lenny Kravitz, Lianne…
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Twenty-five Years for A Tribe Called Quest

  • Liz Wood
  • November 18, 2015
To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of their debut with the LP People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, A Tribe Called Quest appeared on The Tonight Show with The…
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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #60: On Mentorship

  • Rick Moody
  • December 15, 2014
In an empirically-preoccupied world, mentorship appears to be unscientific, impossible to quantify, and perhaps even sentimental.
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