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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Anna Lena Phillips Bell
to do: observe this slanted / river wrought in paper, / shadowed tributaries / that end at the page’s end / or seem to, as a list
A Silver Bowl of Stars: Blas Falconer’s Rara Avis
Whether “It’s a [family] story we don’t like / to tell” or the shifting of roles and a meditation on death “In the book we are reading together,” wisdom closes its hand over sentiment.
Keep the Pressure on the Present: A Conversation with Jody Hobbs Hesler
There’s only so much support you can have and really truly feel like you’ve been relieved of a set of responsibilities.
Danger Down Under: Fiona McFarlane’s Highway Thirteen
According to a website that calculates such things, the furthest city on the globe from my hometown in New York is Perth. Perth—I’ve heard of Perth.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Obliquity
Andrea tells me her hallucinations are getting worse, more frequent, more frightening, though she doesn’t elaborate on how.
On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood: A Conversation with Jennifer Case
When we study evolutionary biology, we learn that parenting was never supposed to take place in just a nuclear family. Yet that’s what has happened in our culture—with the majority of the expectations placed on mothers’ shoulders.
The Loose Borders of Genre: A Conversation with Kyle Winkler
I would suggest making friends with a horror writer, if nothing else.