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Poetics of Lineage

  • Sophia Terazawa
  • February 4, 2020
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Mother We Share

  • Ilana Masad
  • January 29, 2020
This is what happens when I listen. I react.
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The Proustian Wilbur Bud

  • Caralyn Green
  • January 16, 2020
We all will have lost something in the forgetting.
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No One Is Disposable: Talking with Emma Copley Eisenberg

  • Sarah Perry
  • January 13, 2020
Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL.
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Scientific, Healing Magic: How to Know the Flowers by Jessica Smith

  • Cynthia Arrieu-King
  • January 10, 2020
A poem by Jessica Smith yields the feeling that atoms of meaning vibrate, then come together.
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You Have to Look For It: A Conversation with Cameron Dezen Hammon

  • Madhushree Ghosh
  • January 10, 2020
Cameron Dezen Hammon discusses her debut memoir, THIS IS MY BODY.
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Both Past and Present: A Conversation with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

  • Jessica Wilbanks
  • January 6, 2020
Poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo discusses his debut memoir, CHILDREN OF THE LAND.
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Both Reckoning and Embrace: Dorianne Laux’s Only As The Day Is Long

  • Jeri Theriault
  • January 3, 2020
As the book continues, [Laux] traces a growing understanding of loss.
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A Time and a Place: Talking with Faylita Hicks

  • Saaret E. Yoseph
  • December 30, 2019
Faylita Hicks discusses her debut poetry collection, HOODWITCH.
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Bounty

  • T.S. Mendola
  • December 17, 2019
The pleasure comes from the bounty itself, the viewing of it, knowing that she doesn’t have to eat it but that she could.
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Where Speech Fails Us: Talking with Martin Jude Farawell

  • Collin Kelley
  • December 13, 2019
Poet Martin Jude Farawell discusses his debut full-length collection, ODD BOY.
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ENOUGH: Crime and Composure

  • The Rumpus
  • December 10, 2019
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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