TORCH: The American Girl at the Temple
[T]o be a tourist in a foreign country is very different than being a tourist in a foreign country where you are expected to feel you have returned home.
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Why I Chose Shara Lessley’s The Explosive Expert’s Wife for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Here's what we're reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
Wide-Eyed and Awed: Keegan Lester’s this shouldn’t be beautiful but it was & it was all I had so I drew it
Lester often weaves past and present, the personal and the vast into one poem, leaping between these seeming opposites.
Language Is Sensational: A Conversation with Eileen G’Sell
Eileen G'Sell discusses her debut collection, Life After Rugby, how and why she chose her book's title, and challenging gender categories.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #123: Erica Garza
"[T]here was something really empowering about being honest and open about this part of myself. Somehow, writing helped lessen the shame."
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Typhoon is a Hurricane
She tried her best to be clinical, but his dreaming scared her, made her think of ghosts and aswang stealing pieces of her—little bit by little bit.
ENOUGH: The Art of the Cover Up
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
SquareRoot of Love, Politics, and Power
If we really believe that love is important and necessary then where is it, especially when it comes to world politics and power?
Which Flame Is Mine?: A Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir
Rajiv Mohabir discusses his second collection, The Cowherd's Son, his work as a translator, and resisting erasure in a racist America.