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What Is an Anthem

A poet doesn’t review the poems in G.C. Waldrep’s Archicembalo—she listens to them.**I asked a person I was in love with to read to me the first poem in Archicembalo, “Who Is Josquin des Prez.” We were...

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Hey, We Do This Too

We’re not the only ones out there curious to know where and writers write and why.This week the Chicago Tribune spoke to bestselling and award winning authors to get the lowdown on the digs most...

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Song of the Day: “Unfuck the World”

The most prominent feature of Burn Your Fire For No Witness is the haunting voice of Angel Olsen. The St. Louis-bred singer’s husky tone sounds a bit like Cat Power with an exposed nerve. Though Olsen...

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Like Thoreau, But Not

Writers for generation have sought out the solitude of the wilderness to get their work done. But sometimes it’s not as romantic as we hope.Related Posts:Fact or Fiction?The Great GorskyThe Most...

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One of the Crowd

12,000 members of the literary community/industry gathered in LA for AWP last week.Viet Thanh Nguyen considers the writer’s sometimes conflicting needs for audience, privacy, and the tribe. He writes...

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Out the Road

She said this road we were on led nowhere. But I wasn’t a fool and had been with girls like her before. Long before reaching it, I knew about the end.This particular Alaskan tarmac was called Out the...

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The Rumpus Interview with Vi Khi Nao

Of the many things we are taught as young children, the ability to navigate grief is often overlooked. It’s something more learned through experience, a quality that we may indirectly witness others...

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Silence Is the Fertile Field: Talking with Fenton Johnson

In an early draft of his latest book, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life, Fenton Johnson was profiling the homes and studios he visited of various solitary artists. As the...

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