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'Her musical lines, varied as birdsong, don’t shy away from alliterations that stick to the roof of the mouth...'
Elaina Friedman reviews Sylvia Legris's THE PRINCIPLE OF RAPID PEERING (New Directions).
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Pleased to have a new poem up at The Rumpus from Adam Falkner for National Poetry Month! I've always loved Adam's commitment to (self-)interrogation and it's evident again here. Check out 'The Quietest Disco in Brooklyn' at the link. Enjoy and share!
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'Anyone with a degree in thermodynamics knew the world was getting hotter. It was going to cost a lot of lives and a lot of money.'
Stephanie Feldman interviews SarahVLangan about A BETTER WORLD (@AtriaBooks).
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“I find pictures of him with Roy or all of us, Max as a sober person. I want him to remember that things can be different and that he was not always like this.”
From 'Last Drunk' by Anne Palmer for Voices on Addiction curated by Kelly what’s left of a real cool chick Thompson.
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A contemplative, playfully confrontational poem from Daniella Toosie-Watson is our newest entry in The Rumpus National Poetry Month series! You can find Daniella's 'In This Poem, My White, Jesus-loving Dad with Glasses and Bad Jokes is Undead' at the link. Enjoy!
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I really enjoyed reading and meditating on Nicolette Polek's Bitter Water Opera for The Rumpus. The review is up but the novel has not left me. Thank you to Michael Barron for editing.
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“...the narrator recognizes the sprinkles of pixie dust in her own life story and learns that art is not a substitute for living.”
Kassia Oset reviews Nicolette Polek's BITTER WATER OPERA (@GraywolfPress).
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'We also write, very consciously, in spite of those expectations of us and our work...'
Caitlin Coey interviews PERSONAL SCORE author, Ellen van Neerven, for The Rumpus :
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Thank you to The Rumpus, especially Cortney Lamar Charleston, for publishing my poem 'Vultures, Then' for National Poetry Month!
It would mean the world for you to give my poem a read!
(Here is a fragment)
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We're back with the next installment of The Rumpus National Poetry Month series. Today we have a new poem from Jai Hamid Bashir that will transform you in unexpected ways. Check out Jai's 'Vultures, Then' at the link. Enjoy and share!
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'As books often do, they take their time, and they take their time to find a form that not only fits the works’ contents but perhaps how the author sees themself in the world.'
@coeywrites interviews Ellen Van Neerven about PERSONAL SCORE Two Dollar Radio
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Subscribe to Letters in the Mail by April 30 to receive an IRL letter from Morgan Parker. Morgan Parker is the author of Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, among other titles.
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The Rumpus is closing out this week in our National Poetry Month series with a breathtaking poem by Suzi F Garcia! In a quiet moment, sit with Suzi's 'On the Bus Ride from Arkansas to Michigan, the Window Frames Me' and be transported. Enjoy and share!
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Week two of National Poetry Month 2024 is over! Read all of the poems we shared this week, with work by Anthony Cody, Siwar Masannat, KB Brookins, chrysanthemum 🌼, and Suzi F Garcia. And keep your eyes peeled for next week's Friday NPM roundup.
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The Rumpus brings you another new poem today for National Poetry Month! This time, we have a poem from chrysanthemum 🌼 that mesmerizes the way only poetry can. Check out Chrysanthemum's 'Biological Woman' at the link. Enjoy and share!
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The Rumpus BOA Editions Oh my WORD!!! I had so much fun with Kathryn form BOA Editions . Check it out here!@the_rumpus instagram.com/reel/C5elvCpPG…
Any day (especially in April) is a day for poetry so The Rumpus presents to you new work from none other than KB Brookins! Check out KB's dazzling ''Sir?,' 'Ma’am?,' and Other Things I Miss' at the link. Enjoy and share!
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'To both marriage and novel writing, there are challenges, annoyances and frustrations, but also really deep satisfaction, joy, belonging, intimacy, transcendence.'
Rachel Khong in conversation with Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나.
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It’s been a while, but I’m happy to have a new essay out in The Rumpus today on Palliative Care and the difficulties of narrating the dying experience.
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