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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Natalie Scenters-Zapico
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Natalie Scenters-Zapico about her second collection Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press, May 2019), using machine translation to read a multilingual text,...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Dunya Mikhail’s In Her Feminine Sign for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
In the Author’s Notes to her new collection In Her Feminine Sign, forthcoming from New Directions on July 30, Dunya Mikhail describes her writing process for these poems. She says “I wrote these poems...
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From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But in becoming a mathematician, she must face the most human of problems—who is she? What is the...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Eve L. Ewing
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Eve L. Ewing about her latest collection, 1919 (Haymarket Books, June 2019), the histories we don’t get taught, how kids make the poetry canon, books as visual...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Fortune for Your Disaster for the Rumpus...
Sometime between now and when we chat with Hanif Abdurraqib about this, his second collection of poems, I’m going to rewatch The Prestige, a movie which I couldn’t recommend enough to people when I...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with t’ai freedom ford
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with t’ai freedom ford about her new collection & More Black (Augury Books, July 2019), the flexibility of the sonnet form, unusual book design, and being in...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Shira Erlichman’s Odes to Lithium for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
About halfway through the poem “89 Lines on a Bruise,” Shira Erlichman writes: “My bruise returns to chat no matter how hard I try to leave / illness out of this, which is what’s been suggested after...
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In Vanessa Hua’s powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. A River of Stars is an...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Dunya Mikhail
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Dunya Mikhail about her latest collection In Her Feminine Sign (New Directions, July 2019), writing in multiple languages, tablets as poetry, and the stories of...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Malcolm Tariq’s Heed the Hollow for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I’m a sucker for the second-person address in poems. Always have been, at least so far as I can remember. So it’s fair to say that the title of Malcolm Tariq’s debut collection, Heed the Hollow,...
View ArticleGet Your Signed Copy of If You Leave Me Today!
An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love—If You Leave Me is the unforgettable saga of two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they’re forced to make...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Hanif Abdurraqib
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Hanif Abdurraqib about his new poetry collection, A Fortune for Your Disaster (Tin House, September 2019), how the film The Prestige became the unifying principle...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Shira Erlichman
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Shira Erlichman about her debut poetry collection, Odes to Lithium (Alice James Books, September 2019), writing the “unodable,” how visual images can accentuate...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Danez Smith’s Homie for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Probably the first thing you’ll notice upon opening Danez Smith’s newest collection, Homie, (assuming you’re not some kind of anarchist who just pops a collection open to a random page and starts...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Malcolm Tariq
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Malcolm Tariq about his poetry collection Heed the Hollow (Graywolf Press, November 2019), Bible jokes, the American South, and finding food far from home. This...
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Black Friday Sale and Rumpus Holiday Gifts!
This holiday season, give the gift of The Rumpus! We have plenty of holiday gift options for the bookworms and writers in your life, and we’re kicking the season off with a Black Friday sale offering...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers’s The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons...
When I was a kid reading science fiction and watching first the Apollo missions and then later, all matter of movies and TV with the words “star” or “space” prominently featured, I was fascinated by...
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The Rumpus 2019 Holiday Gift Guide
Having trouble picking out a present that’s just right for that special someone? Out of ideas for that ever-growing gift list? We’ve gathered up our favorite gifting ideas for literary-minded friends...
View ArticleFlash Sale: Rumpus Subscription Programs!
Today and tomorrow, 6-month Book Club subscriptions are $175 and 6-month Poetry Book Club subscriptions are $159! One-year Letters in the Mail subscriptions are $58 (domestic) and $73 (international)...
View ArticleFlash Sale: Rumpus Subscription Programs!
Still have some names to cross off on your holiday gift lists? Our subscription programs make a perfect last-minute present! Today and tomorrow, 6-month Book Club subscriptions are $175 and 6-month...
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