What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Mothers
Rumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to celebrate mothers in all their complexity!
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Everything Is Alive: Dunce by Mary Ruefle
Ruefle’s memories are as alive as the bodies holding them.
Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project #216: Corinne Manning
“I’ve never had a book happen to me the way WE HAD NO RULES did.”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Amy Gong Liu
my teeth / taste like glue. my // teeth taste like sun.
Poetry as Archeology: Talking with Roy G. Guzmán
Roy G. Guzmán discusses their debut collection, CATRACHOS.
ENOUGH: Reciprocal Testimony
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
Why We Chose Thea Matthews’s Unearth [The Flowers] for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
A Vocabulary for Apostates
I needed to reshape the definitions of words that were used against me.