The Thread: Volcanoes
Is there a relationship between the violence that came through me, and the violence that came at me?
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Get Your Signed Copy of Leesa Cross-Smith’s Whiskey & Ribbons Today!
Now through 3/31, get a signed copy of WHISKEY & RIBBONS by Leesa Cross-Smith!
An Invisible World: Tomas Tranströmer’s The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems (Expanded Edition)
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.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #126: Christopher Zeischegg
"Being thrust into forced ritualistic closeness does break the ice, but doesn’t guarantee closeness."
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
& suddenly we seemed to know nothing // but the evaporating world, / not one of us fit // to last.
Next Letter for Kids: Mitali Perkins
Our next Letter for Kids comes from award-winning author Mitali Perkins!
ENOUGH: The Mark Thing
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
Sylvia Plath and Reclaiming the Gaze
Perhaps as women we are always trying to record the gaze. Marginalized people are often asked to validate our distrust, trepidation, and fear.
Next Letter in the Mail: Leesa Cross-Smith (& Signed Book Giveaway!)
Our next Letter in the Mail is from Leesa Cross-Smith, plus get a signed copy of WHISKEY & RIBBONS!
David Bowie is Visits New York City!
A retrospective exhibition of Bowie's life and work makes its final stop in Brooklyn!
This Most Vulnerable of Houses: Fady Joudah’s Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance
These poems, poised at the intersections of the material, the metaphorical, and the spiritual, fold into and out of one another as their boundaries dissolve with question after question.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #125: Tyree Daye
"I think if you are really doing the work, you can’t write about America and not explore race and slavery, and that goes for any writer."