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What to Read When

What to Read When You Want to Find Mystery in the Ordinary

…I find myself most excited about writing that is focused on the concrete facts of daily life.

We Are More

We Are More: Ghazal of my Childhood

I remember being told Onsi was a poor artist barely able to feed his family, and my mother, an admirer of his art and a lover of nature, bought all his paintings.

Contrast, Rumination, and Metamorphosis: Diannely Antigua’s Good Monster

As in her debut, Antigua heads off any feelings of confessional monotony by mixing her diary poems with an elegant variety of lesser confessional, more expositional poems.

Essays

An Itch to Scratch

I grew up speaking a different Kannada at home. In Bangalore, I have had to relearn the language all over again.

Reviews

Why a Happy Ending Matters: A Review of John Vercher’s Novels

To appreciate John Vercher’s complete oeuvre of fiction, we have to appreciate what has remained throughout his work and what has shifted.

Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: Find Me in the Light

I can never figure out the right rhythm and I’m always off beat—interrupting at the wrong moment, letting the silence hang for far too long.

Interviews

I Needed Love Poems For Myself: A Conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate

I’m curious about a world in which people are less bothered by the physical confrontation of mental disability, and that felt important when I was writing this book to have mental disability take up physical space in the poems and the pages.

Essays

Prince Edward Island

The gas station attendant looks at me and says, "My advice, get out of town." There’s no snark in his voice. He’s worried.

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Comics

Fragments

On Tove Jansson’s Eccentrics and Oddballs

The Rite

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Essays

Home is a Word Unspoken

Pigs Rooting for Truffles

Contra

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Letters in the Mail from Authors!

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Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: Two Flash Stories by Hyo Jin Ha

Rumpus Original Fiction: Tuesday Morning, Downtown

Rumpus Original Fiction: For the Love of a Body

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What to Read When

What to Read When You’re Looking for Romance

What to Read When You’re a True Believer

What to Read When You’re Freaking out About Earthquakes

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Poetry

National Poetry Month: Hala Alyan

National Poetry Month: Ansel Elkins

National Poetry Month: Julian Talamantez Brolaski

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Columns

We Are More: Istanbul

Voices on Addiction: The Shape of Memory

We Are More: Five Poems by Jen Siraganian

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Reviews

We Must All Transition: Paul B. Preciado’s Dysphoria Mundi

Unfun: Mariah Stovall’s I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both

The Wildness of Grief: Sarah Giragosian’s Mother Octopus

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Interviews

The Gifts of a Father’s Schizophrenia: A Conversation with Natasha Williams

The Kingdom of Happy Land: A Conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez

“A Here that is Not This”: An Undocupoets Roundtable Conversation

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