The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kaveh Akbar, Shon Arieh-Lerer, Justin Boening, Sarah Blake, and Ariella Ritvo-Slifka about Max Ritvo's Four Reincarnations. Max Ritvo died on August 23, 2016.
It can be hard to describe a Jesse Ball novel. They’re willfully strange, dark and puzzling, but the pieces aren’t always designed to fit together. Instead, each of his books,…
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Jill Diamond! Jill wants to know what you like to collect, and writes about all the things she collected as a kid, and…
Writer and artist Kate Gavino, ardent defender of the New York City G train, tells us about the stops that call out to her in this beautifully illustrated letter. Subscribe by November 12 to…
I met one of my favorite writers before she ever published a single story. We were classmates vying for our MFAs in Creative Writing from Florida International University and would…