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Between Sex and Death: Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets
Survival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
Beyond the Manicured Surfaces: Talking with Aaron Smith
Aaron Smith discusses his new poetry collection, THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
Parallel Planes: The Ghosts of Mothers and Daughters
I need to hear myself say it out loud to make it real.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #200: Amplify
“Being misunderstood is a really terrible feeling.”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Chelsea Dingman
Hopelessness is a marriage of light / & dark.
The Violence of Forgetting: The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball
His is not a language that trivializes violence; it’s a language that exposes it.
The Spot You’re Standing In: A Conversation with Chris Dennis
Chris Dennis discusses his debut story collection, HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.
ENOUGH: This Tongue Knows Survival
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.