What to Read When You’re a True Believer
One thing I always tell my students is, "your story matters," because I want them to believe their observations about themselves and the world around them are worth writing about.
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Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman to lead The Rumpus as magazine’s new owners
The Rumpus will transition to new ownership under Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, effective May 1, 2025, announced current Publisher Alyson Sinclair.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by V. B. Borjen
when we were young & unconcerned / swallowing headlines words & all
Poetry, Healing, and the Spirit of Survival: A Conversation with Nadia Alexis
My understanding of survival has evolved. I am interested in the idea that we go through a journey of creating ourselves as humans.
Voices on Addiction: What I Learned About Myself from Watching Intervention
At one point, I admired her. She acted how I wished I could.
Shape Shifting: Nicole Graev Lipson’s Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
Lipson’s ability to do both with precision and compassion, often within the span of a single essay, will touch readers who are mothers, but also readers like me—and like all of us—who know what it is to have a mother.
Rumpus Original Fiction: For the Love of a Body
Conversation was playful; he was charming, I was witty. Our humor bounced off each other seamlessly, smiles and laughs came easy as breathing.
Less Workshop, More Sensibility: A Conversation with Emma Pattee
I thought, “You’re not allowed to write a book that’s just about a woman walking. That’s not even a book. That doesn’t even make sense.”
Women’s History Month Series Lineup
March is Women’s History Month, and streamers will deliver new, groundbreaking series centering women.
We Can and Should Go Home Again: Raye Hendrix’s What Good is Heaven
These poems feel grainy with rich texture, like sinking your hands into the soil, the way it stays between your fingers all day if you don’t scrub your hands clean.
Funny and Large and Wild: A Conversation with Sarah Lyn Rogers
I’m interested in knowing when I’m lying to myself and how that allows me to make different choices later.