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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Andrés Cerpa
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Andrés Cerpa about his new collection The Vault (Alice James Books, June 2021), writing grief while keeping some information private, how writing a book can...
View ArticleWhy We Chose The Animal Indoors by Carly Inghram for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I’m having trouble coming up with the right word to describe what Carly Inghram does with language in her new collection, The Animal Indoors. She makes nouns and verbs dance, but it’s more than that....
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kaveh Akbar
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kaveh Akbar about his new collection, Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf, August 2021), punctuation as a poetic device, and uncertainty. This is an edited transcript of the...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Amanda Moore’s Requeening for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Since finishing Amanda Moore’s debut collection Requeening, I’ve been trying to remember if I’ve read another book that hit me on so many different emotional registers. Part of it is the honesty with...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Carly Inghram
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Carly Inghram about her new collection, The Animal Indoors (Autumn House Press, September 2021), feeling-based logic, and writing poems during a pandemic. This is...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Cynthia Dewi Oka’s Fire Is Not a Country for The Rumpus Poetry...
I keep coming back to the title of Cynthia Dewi Oka’s new book, Fire Is Not a Country, perhaps because I was raised in a faith that saw a future filled with fire and welcomed it. For years I prayed...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Derrick Austin
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Derrick Austin about his new collection, Tenderness (BOA Editions, September 2021), looking for “the Florida” in any landscape, the rich possibilities of...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Constellation Route by Matthew Olzmann for The Rumpus Poetry...
I suppose it’s possible that some day, the concept of the letter will fade from public consciousness to the point where poems and novels that use the form will require a preface, or at least an...
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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...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Amanda Moore
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Amanda Moore about her debut collection Requeening (October 2021), writing about one’s children, hive collapse, and how translation can affect your creative...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Jennifer Huang’s Return Flight for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
A couple of weeks ago, I had to tell the story of the blind men and the elephant to my technical communication students. I found it useful to describe one of the challenges that often comes up when...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cynthia Dewi Oka
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Cynthia Dewi Oka about her new collection Fire Is Not a Country (TriQuarterly Books, 2021), engaging the communities you write from, and how grief and joy can be...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Marisa Siegel
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Marisa Siegel about her new collection Fixed Stars (Burrow Press, 2022). This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. Every month the Rumpus Poetry...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with C. Russell Price
The Rumpus Book Club chats with C. Russell Price about their poetry collection Oh You Thought This Was a Date?! (Triquarterly Books, June 2022), playlists, and the ongoing end- of-the-world. This is an...
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