The Sunday Rumpus Essay: My Souls Are Out A-Wandering
What is marriage but another form of colonization? A renaming? A power taken, a power taken away?
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National Poetry Month Day 22: Randall Mann
Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month by running new poems from poets we admire. We feature a different poet each day, and aim to illustrate the variety in voices and styles of poetry being written today.
Notable NYC: 4/22–4/28
Saturday 4/22: Mara Helal and Jeremy Sigler join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 4/23: Donald Nicholson-Smith and Emma Ramadan present Abdellatif Laâbi’s In Praise of Defeat,…
Saturday Rumpus Poetry: A Poem-Review of Milk Black Carbon and Whereas
And in the silence of the night the small sound of small feet making their way into words.
National Poetry Month Day 21: José Olivarez
Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month by running new poems from poets we admire. We feature a different poet each day, and aim to illustrate the variety in voices and styles of poetry being written today.
The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse
The Storming Bohemian is away this week, doing his taxes. He’ll return when Uncle Sam lets him loose again (next week).
What to Read When You Really Need a First Lady to Show Up
As we wait to see how our current First Lady's legacy unfolds, here's a list of great books about compelling first women, real and fictional.
Notable Chicago: 4/21–4/27
Friday 4/21: Women & Children First welcomes Kay Ulanday Barrett for the Chicago launch party for their poetry collection, When the Chant Comes. Kay will be joined by H. Melt, Francesca…
This Week in Short Fiction
This week, Canadian-British author Alison MacLeod mixes fiction with fact and memoir with metaphysics in a short story about a visit to Sylvia Plath’s grave. At Lit Hub, “Sylvia Wears Pink…
The Teenage Girl in All of Us: Last Sext by Melissa Broder
Last Sext captures a youthful, hard, myth-informed, sleep deprived, aroused, spiritually searching, self-loathing worldview embraced by many of the young women in our lives.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
You know what are weird? German trade shows are weird. You know what are weird? Naked mole rats are weird. Post-Soviet postcards. It’s time to go back to the age…
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Claudia Cortese Discusses Wasp Queen
Poet Claudia Cortese talks about her new book Wasp Queen and Lucy, the rebellious 90s teen whose voice inspired the collection.