My Therapist Prescribed Me Dedicated Poetry Practice: A Conversation with Delilah McCrea
Being trans demands, for me, that I deconstruct that constructed world, and that opens up to a more magical one.
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Moving the Dialogue Forward: Jerald Walker’s Magically Black and Other Essays
Idiosyncratic and smart, MAGICALLY BLACK moves the dialog forward.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Nocturnal
There is, however, an urgency. And, urgently, she tells you stories.
A Good Question is a Risk: A Conversation with Emmalea Russo
Art doesn’t have an obligation to comfort, affirm, make us feel fuzzy. The question is, how do we respond and react?
Books as Compasses for a Meaningful Life: Interview with Glory Edim
It’s important to provide perspective—that life is long and complicated, filled with moments of joy, triumph, and everything in between.
Carry Me With You
The world needs you in it, and you will come to savor every minute of your life.
Life with a Rabbit in the Shadow of Death: A Review of Melanie Cheng’s The Burrow
Though the pandemic may now feel relatively distant, its reminder of how quickly catastrophe can become an everyday fact of life persists.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Sun-Up
“You know what I mean. It really just makes you think about the shortness of life and shit.”
“I Think Everything Can Be Funny”: A Conversation with Youngmi Mayer
Word economy is, basically, the skill that you have to really hone to become a successful stand-up comedian.
Sugar Factory
Though I can’t prove Haines wrote “On the Sly” about or even in Toronto—though the timing seems to line up with her and Shaw meeting here in the late 90s—somehow everything about this city seems packed into that line about the sugar factory.