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Outside(r)

I’d never thought of myself as separate from the world I lived in; the Outside I came from was sensory-rich and immersive, there my interactions unfolded organically and overlapped, building intuitively like the scales on a pinecone, rewarding curiosity with wonder.

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October Spotlight: Letters in the Mail

Some of our Letters in the Mail authors on the books that got them reading as children, and advice for creative kids.

To Write the Way We Live: A Conversation with Jonathan Escoffery

I see myself as a story writer, and that's just the best thing ever.

So You Want to Feel Better: Navigating Grad School, Disability, and the Language of Pain

The term “invisible disability” is commonly used to describe disabilities that are not readily apparent to the eye, but I want to push back on this term. When you pay close attention, most disabilities become visible. Poems are not encoded messages that we’re meant to decipher, I frequently remind my students, they are language organized in ways that demand a different kind of attention. And so it is with invisible disabilities . . .

Glimpses of Peace Only in Dreams: Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees

There’s a war on, and Sergey Sergeyich is worried about his bees.

From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Forty-Six

Waiting to turn forty-six is like standing in the unrelenting sunshine.

Disability in Education

Welcome to our themed "issue" on Disability in Education.

Knowledge alters things forever: A conversation with Anuradha Roy

. . . it was clear in my head that the dog in the book would not die, that he would bring people together, and also function as a kind of barometer for good and evil because, in my experience, that is how dogs are.

RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: Jealous of Children By Jill McDonough

An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club‘s October selection, American Treasure by Jill McDonough forthcoming from Alice James Books on November 8, 2022 Subscribe by September 15 to the…

On Erosion

Proximity to disaster is inevitable.

A Collection of Hours: Look Here by Ana Kinsella

Reading about flânerie is a “useful” thing for me to do: useful for my career, for my scholarly ambitions. Actually partaking in flânerie is rarely useful in these ways

Rumpus Original Fiction: Mycomorphosis

“Everything looks good,” the neurologist said. The hairs on his head, she couldn’t help noticing, resembled plump white beansprouts—they stood from his scalp as if fat with water. His fingers too. “The only thing is that you have extra fungus in your head.”

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