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  • What to Read When

What to Read When You Can’t Catch a Break

  • Jemimah Wei
  • May 9, 2025
What reliably got me out of that slump was writing more and reading literature that lifted me out of my immediate crisis (I can’t go on!) and into the world (and yet we must!).
  • Funny Women

Funny Women: Advice for Midlife Lady Writers

  • Jody Callahan
  • May 9, 2025
Do not use a frowny face when forwarding your manuscript to an editor. Do not write “frowny face” either.
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Long-term Art Project

  • Gabe Montesanti
  • May 8, 2025
She hid out in a bathroom, calling out for her father. She called him "daddy," a term she hadn't used since she was a child.
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Sacred Mire and the Cutting Edge of Anti-: Tawahum Bige’s Cut to Fortress

  • Robert Manaster
  • May 7, 2025
Bige as an in-your-face activist-poet resists the colonizer through a poetry they themselves appropriate and transform mainly via language play and voice into an indigenous poetry of personal redemption.
  • Essays

To Adopt a Grandparent

  • Josiah Roberts
  • May 6, 2025
“In every interaction there’s someone with power and someone without. If you are the latter, your two most important virtues are patience and persistence.”
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Little by Little: Naomi Cohn’s The Braille Encyclopedia

  • Esa Grigsby
  • May 6, 2025
…disability will likely affect everyone in one way or another as they age—which is why regressive policies, revoked support, and limited accessibility are personal issues for us all.
  • Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: Twinsies

  • Megan Howell
  • May 5, 2025
Whatever happened to that one secretary from your job? The one who likes talking about murders instead of doing any work? I bet she already knows more about Aida than I do.
  • Interviews

The Gifts of a Father’s Schizophrenia: A Conversation with Natasha Williams

  • Erin Wood
  • May 5, 2025
I wish mental health care practices acknowledged the heroic effort of living between worlds and could be more curious about psychosis as a psychic call for help.
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Fragments
  • Jenni Belotserkovsky and Sarah Yahm
  • April 3, 2025
On Tove Jansson’s Eccentrics and Oddballs
  • Emily Webber, Rachel Luria, and Beverly Luria
  • March 7, 2025
The Rite
  • Rosie Brand
  • March 6, 2025
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Home is a Word Unspoken
  • Tamar Mekredijian
  • April 18, 2025
Pigs Rooting for Truffles
  • Jenny Li
  • April 15, 2025
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  • Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
  • April 1, 2025
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Tuesday Morning, Downtown
  • Sabrina Lim Fang
  • April 14, 2025
Rumpus Original Fiction: For the Love of a Body
  • E. B. Taylor
  • March 24, 2025
Rumpus Original Fiction: We Tremble
  • Jessica Diaz-Hurtado
  • March 17, 2025
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What to Read When You’re Looking for Romance
  • Gemini Wahhaj
  • April 11, 2025
True Believer
What to Read When You’re a True Believer
  • Jeff Kass
  • March 28, 2025
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What to Read When You’re Freaking out About Earthquakes
  • Emma Pattee
  • March 14, 2025
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National Poetry Month: Rob Arnold
  • Rob Arnold
  • April 21, 2025
National Poetry Month: Harmony Holiday
  • Harmony Holiday
  • April 18, 2025
National Poetry Month: Mathias Svalina
  • Mathias Svalina
  • April 17, 2025
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We Are More: Five Poems by Jen Siraganian
  • Jen Siraganian
  • March 27, 2025
Voices on Addiction: What I Learned About Myself from Watching Intervention
  • Katie C. Reilly
  • March 25, 2025
Women’s History Month Series Lineup
  • Elissa Bassist
  • March 21, 2025
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The Wildness of Grief: Sarah Giragosian’s Mother Octopus
  • Barbara Ungar
  • April 16, 2025
LittlePuss Press Double Release: On Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event: An Essay & Anton Solomonik’s Realistic Fiction
  • Erin Vachon
  • April 15, 2025
Past is Prelude: Denne Michele Norris’s When The Harvest Comes
  • Kelsey L. Smoot
  • April 8, 2025
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Never Just One Story: A Conversation with Wayne Scott
  • Amy Bond
  • April 21, 2025
Masculinity, Grief, and Music: A Conversation with Denne Michele Norris
  • Ursula Villarreal-Moura
  • April 14, 2025
The First Book: Sam Ashworth
  • Samuel Ashworth
  • April 9, 2025
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