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About The Rumpus’s Adoptee-Themed Month
Reclaiming National Adoption Awareness Month as National Adoptee Awareness Month by publishing essays about the adoptee experience, written by adoptees.
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Gender Interrogations in Contemporary Queer Poetics: Six New Poetry Collections
How is poetic form being adapted, altered, and reimagined in contemporary lesbian and queer poetry? Five new poetry collections by lesbian, queer, and trans poets attend keenly to gender and systems surrounding it.
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“I’m Not Grateful to Have Been Adopted, But I Am Thankful To Have Grown Up In A Wonderful Home”: A Conversation With Angela Tucker
By contextualizing my experience, I hoped to offer new dimensions to the conversation around adoption.
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In the Wilds of Magic: Clarice Lispector’s The Apple in the Dark
Despite the challenges presented by this novel’s wandering nature, Lispector’s stylistic feats enchants through to the end, and offers a compelling perspective on the wild magic of her voice.
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Writing Outside the Box: A Conversation with Taymour Soomro
Do I want to be writing the way that I think literary fiction ought to be written? That’s starting to not seem so interesting to me anymore.
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What to Read When You’re Healing
In our cultural climate of reflecting and experiencing so much societal, governmental, and personal harm; it’s no wonder many have returned and revived poetry as a balm for the current moment.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jon Jon Moore Palacios
Predators take pleasure in attack, but you take pleasure away / from the lacewings and the ladybugs, the wasps and the hoverfly larvae.
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The Gift and Burden of Ancestral Stories: A Conversation with Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Some of my favorite moments and scenes are when characters do something surprising that bends toward humor or something selfless that reaches for connection.
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The Anger of Memory: Teju Cole’s Tremor
In this, Cole has taken the “tragedy” of a transcontinental survivalist to spin a narrative that transcends the conventional perimeters of a novel.
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Voices on Addiction: Searching for My Mother’s Ocean
We left when the boats were shutting down and the stores closed. In the darkness of downtown Miami, fear crept into the cracks of my boldness. Downtown was not a safe place at night.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Let All Our Ghosts Depart
This is what beauty was, she said. This is what beauty made you into.
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A Lament, A Call to Action, A Love Story: A Conversation with Alejandro Varela
There’s truth in everything we write, but there’s a lot of fabrication and fantasy, and you don’t have that freedom with science.