Book Club Blog Poetry Why I Chose Justin Phillip Reed’s Indecency for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club Brian SpearsMarch 16, 2018 Here's what we're reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!Read
Read Funny Women Humor Rumpus Original FUNNY WOMEN: A Makeup Look for Nuclear Anxiety Caitlin BradyMarch 16, 2018 [W]hat's more thrilling than making the world more beautiful one haggard, agitated face at a time?Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Unsettled Terrain: Rummage by Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa Scott BealMarch 16, 2018 If shame works by convincing us that we are bad, by pinning us into a definition of badness, then the poems in Rummage resist by refusing to be pinned at all.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #127: Tara Skurtu Maria AndersonMarch 15, 2018 "A poem is not a perfect puzzle, yet it is precisely a perfect puzzle."Read
Read Allyson McCabe Music Rumpus Original Wanted/Needed/Loved: Victoria Ruiz’s Grandma’s Grocery Board Allyson McCabe and Esme BlegvadMarch 15, 2018 I’m not a trained musician, but my grandma helped me to become fearless...Read
Book Club Blog What We’re Reading in April! The Rumpus Book ClubMarch 14, 2018 Find out what The Rumpus Book Club is reading in April!Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Fiction: Handsome Cab Hilary LeichterMarch 14, 2018 A warm wash of confidence came over me. You don't really know who you are until you know which car you're following.Read
Read ENOUGH Politics Rumpus Original Sex ENOUGH: Cowards Love the Dark The RumpusMarch 13, 2018 A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.Read
Read Marissa Korbel Rumpus Original The Thread: Volcanoes Marissa KorbelMarch 13, 2018 Is there a relationship between the violence that came through me, and the violence that came at me?Read
Read Book Club Blog Letters Blog Get Your Signed Copy of Leesa Cross-Smith’s Whiskey & Ribbons Today! The RumpusMarch 12, 2018 Now through 3/31, get a signed copy of WHISKEY & RIBBONS by Leesa Cross-Smith!Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews An Invisible World: Tomas Tranströmer’s The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems (Expanded Edition) Aaron BelzMarch 9, 2018 The poem, [Tranströmer] seems to say, doesn’t have to carry every burden of its poet’s heart. It doesn’t need to speak out loud, either.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Sex The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #126: Christopher Zeischegg Antonia CraneMarch 8, 2018 "Being thrust into forced ritualistic closeness does break the ice, but doesn’t guarantee closeness."Read