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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Maggie Smith

• Maggie Smith
• July 21, 2022

What do we do? We birth the new citizens / & answer their bodies with our bodies. // We rock the new citizens to sleep. / We clothe them with skin & stamp // their passports with milk.

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All Creatures Great and Small Run Amok

• Adrienne Celt
• July 21, 2022

Chaos abounds!

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Letters in the Mail: July Spotlight

• The Rumpus
• July 21, 2022

More from some of our July Letters in the Mail authors

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• We Are More

From the Archive: We Are More: New Country, Old Bones

• Mary Barghout
• July 20, 2022

What did you hope to build in the / New country?

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August Spotlight: Letters in the Mail

• The Rumpus
• July 20, 2022

Chatting with two of August's Letters in the Mail featured authors about some of their favorite books.

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Make something inexplicable happen: An Interview with Morgan Talty

• Kate Finegan
• July 20, 2022

What's funnier than somebody having a mental breakdown? We all experienced it, so why can't we laugh at that?

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Fat Ghost

• Lu Chekowsky
• July 19, 2022

Only now can I finally see how this had been our pact all along. We’d decided between us, somewhere along the way, and without any real discussion, that my mother would be the flower and I would be the wax paper.

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Between the Lands of the Living and the Dead: When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

• Keishel Williams
• July 19, 2022

. . . as the St. Bernard women in Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut novel When We Were Birds have understood from generation to generation, the dead need to stay dead . . .

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Bridle

• Stephanie Chang
• July 18, 2022

But I am, I wanted to say. I am willing.

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Form as a Metaphor for Fatness: A Conversation with Stephanie Rogers

• Frances Donovan
• July 18, 2022

Is it ridiculous to say don’t give up? Because I mean it.

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From the Archive | Spotlight Comic: “Fashion Dos and Don’ts 2050: Climate Apocalypse Edition”

• Natasha Jung-Kang O’Neill
• July 15, 2022

A satiric comic that looks at the grim reality of climate catastrophe through the humorous lens of fashion tips.

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Just by Looking at Him: Ryan O’Connell Trust-Falls into Novel Writing

• Adam Roberts
• July 15, 2022

. . . after I finished my first book, I was like, “I'm never writing a book again,” because that process was so miserable. But now that I've written this novel . . .

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