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Rumpus Original Fiction: On the Farm

On the farm, I understand exactly the degree to which I have come to depend on alcohol, since in the first three weeks I think about it frequently and get worried and even look for it twice in the farmer’s house, and on the fourth week I am less interested, and on the fifth week I do other things.

The Answers Usually Come from Somewhere Unexpected: An Interview with Emma Winsor Wood

If you go to a poetry reading, the aphoristic moments are usually where the audience lets out a collective “hmmm” or “ahhh”—almost before the poet has finished the sentence.

What to Read When You Want to Slip Away

A list from YZ Chin of works in translation

ENOUGH: Landlines

Before my father killed her, my mother spent her evenings telling me the story of how she came to America. Every night, the way she started was with something new.

A Rumpus Poetry Gift Guide

Poetry for everyone

RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: GARDEN by Gabrielle Bates

An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club's January selection, JUDAS GOAT by Gabrielle Bates forthcoming from Tin House Books on January 24, 2023

American Mothers are Screaming: A conversation with Jessica Grose

I think people want more unstressed time with their kids. I think so much of the time we are spending with our kids we are exhausted, and we have all this other stuff on our minds that’s mentally draining, physically draining. But the answer is not always more childcare.

Green eggs

Space to Breathe

We inhale when we’re born, then breathe and breathe and breathe until one day we exhale our final breath.

The Art of Attention: Jill Christman’s If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays

“If you really want to look at someone, then your only option is to look at yourself, squarely and deeply.”

Rumpus Original Fiction: Chicken

I used my fingers on the neighbor and he liked it.

Boys and Oil: Taylor Brorby on Making Space for Queer Stories on the Great Plains

I developed two books. One I called “The Gay Book,” and one I called “The North Dakota Book.” Well, those are the same book, as you can imagine.

FUNNY WOMEN: I’m an Audience Member at this Panel Event, and I Have More of a Comment than a Question

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