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Rumpus Original Fiction: When Will You Arrive?

We do not have lovers, if so there would not be need to reply or congregate to these stupid events, because the language of two people together is the exclusionary body of themselves. In the absence of a body, we settle for Snapchat . . .

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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.

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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.

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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

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Escaping the Infinite: An Omnibus Review of Four Contemporary Works of Poetry

So everything should be very clear.

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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.

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Fallout

Accommodations are fundamental rights.

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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.”

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