Blogs
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Zain Aslam
On the train home, I / fell asleep and missed my stop. / The face I saw in my dream / belonged to the watch I wear.
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Voices on Addiction: Dodging Rocks
I was also told that Sophie’s first words as she was tackled by police and hit the cold, hard linoleum of the PO’s office were, “Tell Dad I’m sorry.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Stories by Walker Rutter-Bowman
I could almost taste a wave, see the little crabs escape the surf. A woman screamed in a good way, for the good things.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Saba Keramati
My heart sinks before I mean it to. / The disappointment I know is wrong.
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Echoes in the Gallery: Andy Young’s Museum of the Soon to Depart
…Young transforms these cities into an enigmatic museum, with galleries that reach back through time to the very essence of dust.
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ENOUGH: Our Father
“We believe that the real number—of children whose records were lost, or who were afraid ever to come forward—is in the thousands.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Organ Donor
“How did you decide to make this donation?” the reporter asked.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Paul Hlava Ceballos
Ay chiquitín, I think but do not say— / the language and tone feel / of another world.
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One Can Be Alive Again: Madeleine Cravens’s Pleasure Principle
Cravens’s reliance on and loyalty to the image become a propulsive, vibrating force—this is a poetics of presence, of that which is tangible….
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Leaves of a Cypress Tree
You had to knock thrice slowly on the door’s edge, said Grandma, and if she didn’t reply, that meant she didn’t want you to come inside.
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ENOUGH: Three Poems
I spoke of Love as they speak of God in court, / distant and hypothetical. Something I might bow to / if you could prove it to me.
