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Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
The Poetry We Need and the Chitchat We Don’t
What we all need to hear right now, with special guest Marisa Siegel, Editor in Chief of The Rumpus.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes
Jericho Brown: ‘Write into the Deep Dark Wreck’
“I grow green with hope. I’d like to end there.”
Posted inFeature
Best of 2025: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story we selected for the number five slot in our weekly newsletter, in a handy digest.
Posted inReading List
Let Go of Your Ego: A Reading List on Brian Wilson and “Pet Sounds”
Let’s go away for awhile and reflect on the genius of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys’ 1966 album “Pet Sounds.” Wouldn’t it be nice?
Posted inFeature, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Heart Wing
The muscle that never stops, until the very end. Is your heart a hardworking pump or a mystic miracle?
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Sound and The Fury of Jericho Brown
“His poetry deftly names the forces — be it cop, disease, or addiction — that would have him dead, while he celebrates the beauty, be it in a flower, in a lover’s embrace, or in anything that helps him thrive in this burning world.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Moving Literary Life Off the Page
For one poet, conducting a satisfying literary life off-page required living life outside the classroom.
Posted inFeature
Best of 2024: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story that appeared in the number five slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
Posted inEditor's Pick
46 Years in Prison, and a Plan to Kill the Man Who Framed Him
“Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolors. But on a cold day in the prison yard, he carried a knife and thought about revenge.”
