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The Freedom of Form & Re-Entering Myths: An interview with A.E. Stallings

• Michelle Bitting
• March 1, 2023

Our lives may seem to be lived on the small scale of the everyday but, because we are mortal, because ultimately everything is at stake, also play out against something universal and important.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Litany of Invisible Things

• Vincent Anioke
• February 27, 2023

The sound of love: you and him. Once upon a time.

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Voices on Addiction: The Churn

• L.L. Kirchner
• February 24, 2023

Nothing mattered but the churn.

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Yearning and Wandering: Tiff Dressen’s Of Mineral

• Jessica Wickens
• February 22, 2023

The earth is fertile ground for seeking one’s roots and connection to others.

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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Lunch Money

• Gabrielle Rucker
• February 20, 2023

Out here on the balcony, perched three stories above the ground, we’re in her world.

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The Person Is Not The Body: An Interview with Rushi Vyas

• Rajiv Mohabir
• February 20, 2023

I think, as writers, we only have so much choice. Obsessions emerge from our lived experience.

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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Luther Hughes

• Luther Hughes
• February 16, 2023

About storms, truly, what did I know?

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Run, Sister

• Lindsay Haber
• February 13, 2023

“You better start running,” he says, as he takes the hammer from its peg. “Your lucky hammer!” he yells.

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ENOUGH: Power Dome

• Tara Campbell
• February 10, 2023

Women just need to live / inside a geodesic dome / powered by male rage; / the angrier they get / the safer we’ll be

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Clearing the Bar with Care and Complexity: Ada Limón’s The Hurting Kind

• Landon Porter
• February 8, 2023

The Hurting Kind’s epigraph, a quote from Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik [implores] us to “Sing as if nothing were wrong. / Nothing is wrong.” When we read Limón, we can almost believe that.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Country People Work

• Stephanie Mullings
• February 6, 2023

Wider. 

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Funny Women: A Literary Agent’s Manuscript Wish List

• Kathleen Founds
• February 3, 2023

I need a book that gives me the high of MDMA without the risk of faintness, dehydration, or a nosy mall cop telling me to put my shirt back on in the food court.

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