A Door Isn’t Just a Door: An Interview with Lucy Rose
I collect things like a magpie. I need to try everything.
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How to Workshop with White People
Follow these other guidelines to write, workshop, and receive mildly odd to offensive critiques with dignity...
On Tove Jansson’s Eccentrics and Oddballs
I saw my fears and yearnings magnified and reflected back to me in Jansson's stories.
The First Book: Emily J. Smith
I wanted to explore how all these small indignities pile up for women over time and what an attempt at revenge might look like.
Musings on the Lost Landscape: A Conversation with Lauren Markham
I feel increasingly in my life that action and feeling must be in a dance.
Meaning in the Mundane: A. Kendra Greene’s No Less Strange or Wonderful
Loss and loneliness might be ubiquitous, but Greene reminds us of their infinite manifestations, each with a specificity so intimate we feel it like a punch to the gut.
Of Black Milk, Black Bodies, and Accepting the Muchness in Lyrical Poetry: A Conversation with Tiana Clark
I’m learning to embrace my excess, and that gentle acceptance of my extraness waterfalls over into my work.
What to Read When You Want to Shake Up the Syllabus
I would love to see more literature courses used to bring canonical books into conversation with other authors, taking another writer’s point of view to expand and critique the lens offered by the canon.
A Memoir of Becoming and a Tribute to Joni Mitchell: A Conversation with Paul Lisicky
I write because I want to be in another place, out of my chair, looking up at trees.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Alex Vigue
the floor is lava // the lava is a river / this river does not drown