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The Life of the Mind: A Conversation with Elizabeth Scanlon
“You have a better chance of being canonized / than of winning the Mega Millions lottery,” Elizabeth Scanlon writes in her first full-length poetry collection, Lonesome Gnosis (Horsethief Books, 2017),...
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Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me
In April and May, Voices on Addiction is partnering with Writing Our Lives (WOL) and its creator, Vanessa Martír. WOL came out of Vanessa’s deep want to see stories like her own out in the world....
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Finding the World Within
No one will know about my family’s struggle with mental illness because no one will talk about it. Generations have lost this knowledge and now I have only my mother’s half-hearted attempts at...
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Aswang as a Second Language
I’ve always felt this conflict in my cells, that I don’t feel, can’t be, will never get to be fully landed here, in America. My almond eyes, full lips, and dark brown skin. Benevolent colonialists and...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Eric Tran
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Eric Tran about his debut full-length collection The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer (Autumn House Press, March 2020), activating the spiritual through poetry,...
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Affliction: On Finding Relief in Pain
I. In the place I come from, once the Thai moon is fully swollen, the Kaumaras prepare themselves for Kavadi. For forty-eight days, they abstain from meat and sex and alcohol, sleep on cold floors,...
View ArticleBeauty in a Cold Season: Katherine May’s Wintering
For most of us, a state of crisis is not one we regularly seek. We do not venture past the tip of the iceberg. We prevent catastrophe with safety nets, dodge apocalyptic fears with the humdrum of...
View ArticleLike Clockwork, Like Memory: There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife by...
A few months ago, I smiled back at JinJin, the sister-friend of my life and author of the chapbook There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife, a winner of Radix Media’s inaugural Own Voices Chapbook...
View ArticleTeaching the Ineffable: Learning to Pray by Yahia Lababidi
Most of Yahia Lababidi’s work has an unabashedly spiritual element to it, so it is no surprise Learning to Pray would be a subject within his writerly domain. Including aphorisms in the book must come...
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National Poetry Month Day 2: Virginia Konchan
Parousia Why would I expect a tired employee, overworked, uninsured, and underpaid, to devise a surefire exit plan from hell? That would be akin to thinking one can learn about men by watching...
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