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May 5, 2022

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kyle Dacuyan

Casual amnesia Sunday I saw several people crying at the airport. One man on his phone begging the person on the other line to please stop calling and checking on him. I gathered that the mother of…

Call for Submissions: September ’22 Themed Month

Other

Eve Ettinger and Gretchen Schreiber

May 5, 2022

Call for Submissions: September ’22 Themed Month

Education is perhaps the most vulnerable and intimate experience people can have with each other that is not familial or romantic. It’s so easy for the classroom to be either harmful—consider the destruction of a person’s curiosity and confidence in…

So Much At Risk: Talking with Christopher Soto

Features & Reviews, Interviews

Diane Gottlieb

May 4, 2022

So Much At Risk: Talking with Christopher Soto

If I am audacious enough to imagine [my] reader, then I imagine this is a person who has never had the option to look away.

Essays, Mental Health Awareness

Bunny McFadden

May 3, 2022

The Big, Mangy One

I am transfixed with the probability of earthquakes.

Perfectly Made and Frighteningly Fragile: This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris

Features & Reviews, Reviews

Chaya Nautiyal Murali

May 3, 2022

Perfectly Made and Frighteningly Fragile: This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris

We must learn to see the divine even in our sorrow

Essays, Mental Health Awareness

Anna Held

May 2, 2022

Getting Through It & Charting the Edges

Welcome to our themed “issue” for Mental Health Awareness Month.

The Present in Its Most Vivid Colors: A Conversation with Ben Shattuck

Features & Reviews, Interviews

Barrett Bowlin

May 2, 2022

The Present in Its Most Vivid Colors: A Conversation with Ben Shattuck

What does a growth of new grass on a hillside in spring make you feel? Is it a mixture of nostalgia and hope? Or what does a distant mountain range wreathed in a crown of clouds make you feel?