Read Poems Poetry Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jennifer Givhan Jennifer GivhanMay 17, 2018 Good thing we hadn’t held the chrysalid funeral yet. The two butterflies emerged. Damaged wings but reborn.Read
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Read Book Club Blog Features & Reviews Rumpus Original The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Broder The Rumpus Book ClubMay 16, 2018 Melissa Broder discusses her debut novel, The Pisces (Hogarth, May 2018), the importance of love between women, and mermaid sex.Read
Read Deesha Philyaw Features & Reviews Rumpus Original VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Bethany C. Morrow Deesha PhilyawMay 16, 2018 Bethany C. Morrow discusses her debut novel, MEM, how it felt to read Toni Morrison for the first time, and her hope for Black girl readers.Read
Read ENOUGH Politics Rumpus Original Sex ENOUGH: On Junot Díaz, from a Survivor The RumpusMay 15, 2018 A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.Read
Book Club Blog Why I Chose Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club Brian SpearsMay 15, 2018 Here's what we're reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!Read
Read Marissa Korbel Rumpus Original The Thread: Goddesses and Monsters Marissa KorbelMay 15, 2018 Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews The Depths We Don’t Have Words For: Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s Echolocation Kasey JuedsMay 11, 2018 [R]eading these poems feels like looking down into deep water, being able to see only so far and no farther.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #135: Patrick Nathan Garrard ConleyMay 10, 2018 "I wanted to make these characters much more complex than the individual boxes we normally see."Read
Read Allyson McCabe Music Rumpus Original Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ira Kaplan’s Favorite Pit Stops Allyson McCabe and Esme BlegvadMay 10, 2018 To pull into a rest area and get a bag of KFC or McDonald’s or whatever is kind of soul crushing, or at least it is for us.Read
Read Book Club Blog What We’re Reading in June! The Rumpus Book ClubMay 9, 2018 Find out what The Rumpus Book Club is reading in June!Read