Reading Whitman While White
It is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
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...moreJocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
...moreCyclical patterns of journalism notwithstanding, Gladstone sees this moment as uniquely concerning.
...moreAnd if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
...moreLet us teach something new to the next generation that speaks to the lessons we’ve learned.
...moreKiki Petrosino discusses her newest collection, Witch Wife, the career she’d have in an alternate universe, and the relationship between reading and writing.
...moreCan you see it now? Is the image different in your mind yet? A thing you can’t unsee.
...moreIt is late for our country. We must look back in dialogue with the founders, examine a patched-together country, an embattled flag, and consider how to stop floundering.
...moreIt’s not coincidental, I think, that most of the secular and sacred saints we venerate now went charging against the grain of the Municipal We.
...moreErika L. Sánchez discusses her new collection Lessons on Expulsion, pushing back against sexism and misogyny, being a troublemaker, and donkeys.
...more…being on the edge of the natural world is like being on the edge of time.
...moreTo be forced to speak in the language of the colonist, the language of the oppressor, while also carrying within us the storm of Jamaican patois, we live under a constant hurricane of our doubleness.
...more“Song of the Gourd” is like an eye roll at this sort of gusto about leaving the Southland.
...moreOne of the thrills of being a writer is becoming aware of the wildness that percolates inside of you. If you’ve learned to listen, you’re able to hear it.
...moreShould Facebook decide what qualifies as tragedy? How can technology shape stories beyond how they are displayed? Herzog on reality. Would our Founding Fathers approve of copyright law?
...moreDamien Ober discusses the Declaration of Independence, Internet viruses in the eighteenth century, and his new novel Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America.
...moreDamien Ober reviews John Ferling’s JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
...moreBooks once belonging to Thomas Jefferson, our most bibliophilic president, have turned up at Washington University in St. Louis. The books were part of Jefferson’s retirement library, so-called because he started the collection after donating 6,700 books to the Library of Congress in 1815. By the time of his death in 1826, Jefferson had already […]
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