The Correlation Between Love and Essay-Writing: An Interview with Jill Christman
Practicing deep curiosity and close observation is fundamental to writing essays. We need only to look at our small children to teach us these lessons.
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Pecking Order
I didn’t feel guilty, not exactly, but I did feel a twang of remorse as we left her by herself.
Into the Body
These days, I walk down to the river running through the town I’ve made mine. The water’s on the rise.
RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: DISPATCHES FROM A FUTURE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER BY FRANNY CHOI
An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club's November selection, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
Escaping the Infinite: An Omnibus Review of Four Contemporary Works of Poetry
So everything should be very clear.
Embodied Voices: A Conversation with Sonya Huber
So many of the metaphors we use that come from the body and bodily experience are ableist and predicated upon a notion of “normal.” In educational systems, that idea of “normal” has led to serious accessibility issues, to separate and unequal classrooms.
Finding Land: Audrey Magee’s The Colony
“When you look at the colonial system, one of the things they want to eradicate is the native language, because they don’t understand what’s going on and they can’t control it.”
Rumpus Original Fiction: Black Bottom Swamp Bottle Woman
. . . maybe they believe labeling and understanding mean the same thing . . .
Can we be too alive together? A conversation with Chris Martin on poetry, autism, and our neurodivergent future
The way we arrange the conditions of our togetherness can allow all the writing to happen that beckons to happen.
What To Read When Warding Off Art Monsters
or: When great artists turn out to be great douchebags
