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Reading Whitman While White

  • Han VanderHart
  • November 8, 2021
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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Performing Violence: A Conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

  • Barrett Bowlin
  • October 6, 2021
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
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Panic Mode: The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld

  • Lily Houston Smith
  • July 7, 2021
Cyclical patterns of journalism notwithstanding, Gladstone sees this moment as uniquely concerning.
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A Language for Extinction: Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds

  • Aiya Sakr
  • January 22, 2021
And if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
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Racism Shouldn’t Be Shocking: Toppling American Myths

  • Abigail G. H. Manzella
  • August 8, 2018
Let us teach something new to the next generation that speaks to the lessons we’ve learned.
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Woven from Dreams: A Conversation with Kiki Petrosino

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • April 27, 2018
Kiki Petrosino discusses her newest collection, Witch Wife, the career she'd have in an alternate universe, and the relationship between reading and writing.
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The Thread: Ways of Being Seen

  • Marissa Korbel
  • December 12, 2017
Can you see it now? Is the image different in your mind yet? A thing you can’t unsee.
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Stitching America Back Together: A Long Late Pledge by Wendy Willis

  • Edward Derby
  • November 3, 2017
It 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.
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I, Me, We, and the GOP

  • Brian Bouldrey
  • July 24, 2017
It’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.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erika L. Sánchez

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • July 18, 2017
Erika L. Sánchez discusses her new collection Lessons on Expulsion, pushing back against sexism and misogyny, being a troublemaker, and donkeys.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 14): “Some Grass Along a Ditch Bank”

  • David Biespiel
  • June 6, 2017
...being on the edge of the natural world is like being on the edge of time.
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Interrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair

  • Laura Creste
  • March 27, 2017
To 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.
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