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Rumpus Original Fiction: Sentences
” . . . I’m pretending to be a student for the sake of a thought experiment I’m trying to disguise as a story so it has a better chance of getting read. Also, I look young.”
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Nostalgia is a Lie: A Conversation with Liz Prato
It wasn’t underground at all. We’d just been looking the other way.
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RUMPUS BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: Yuvi Zalkow’s I Only Cry with Emoticons
An excerpt from Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS out from Red Hen Press in June 2022.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Bianca Stone
Fortinbras felt so good / the way he came after everyone was dead / with an army, and their complexes were dead / dead, dead, but still soft, the flush / just barely drained from of their cheeks,
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Shining a Light on Sins of the South: A Review of Han VanderHart’s What Pecan Light
In What Pecan Light VanderHart seeks to address “the white ghosts / of the South” by bringing them to the light for all to see.
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She Wanted to Be the Hero: A Conversation with Vanessa Hua
The details that go unremarked are very powerful because it assumes this is the way things are. It’s not unusual. It’s just the way these people live.
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A History That Looks Forward: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
. . . there are still, and always have been, other ways [of living].
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Resurrection on a daily basis: Exploring The Hurting Kind with Ada Limón
How do we face the world and also love the world? That’s one of the questions of my life, maybe.
