Jennifer Bowen's essays and stories appear in Orion, The Sun, Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, The Normal School, Tin House, and elsewhere. She's been honored with a Best American Essay Notable mention, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, the Arts & Letters Prize, Tim McGinnis Award, and others. Jennifer is the Artistic Director of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
A brutal Irish girlhood, a medical procedure that can change your race, and a novel narrated by the brilliant Russian inventor of the theremin—all in this week's Rumpus Books coverage.
A short story collection 15 years in the making, a "slacker intellectual" aboard an aircraft carrier, and poems about everyday political frictions—it's all in our books coverage this week.
We make a case against David Mitchell's new novel, update the Indian American immigrant story, and interview a queer renaissance woman—all in Rumpus Books.
This week in our Books section: intimate geography, E.M. Forster in India, and "the most seamlessly inventive and enchanting debut novel since White Teeth.
The Academy of American Poets is celebrating its 80th year and the end of National Poetry Month by relaunching Poets.org, one of the world’s largest databases for poems, information on…
If you’re in Miami this April, please come check out O, Miami! It’s a wonderful, month-long poetry festival featuring translation and editing workshops, open mics, yoga, poetry karaoke, a youth…