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Years ago, after I graduated from UC Santa Cruz, I couldn’t write because my editor voice seemed to be in overdrive. I would start a sentence and somehow end up…
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Notable Los Angeles: 5/11-5/17
Saturday 5/11: Lit Fest Pasadena 2.0 is on! Enjoy a full day of readings, panels, performances and signings from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Pasadena’s Central Park. Also in Pasadena,…
What Others Are Saying About What We’re Reading: A Book Clubs Update
Rumpus Book Club and Poetry Book Club members have one great advantage over readers everywhere else: you get to read new work before anyone else (except some reviewers) gets to.…
Easy Math by Lauren Shapiro
Weston Cutter reviews Lauren Shapiro's Easy Math today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #48: Sara Finnerty in Conversation with Her Grandmother, Elena Iocco
My grandparents, Luigi and Elena, were married on February 14th, 1947, in Italy, where there is no such thing as Valentines Day.
The Next Letter in the Mail: Alexis Smith
The next Letter in the Mail, going out May 15, is from Alexis Smith! Alexis is the author of the novel Glaciers and a graduate of Goddard College’s MFA program in creative writing.…
Collected Poems by Joseph Ceravolo
Barbara Berman reviews Joseph Ceravolo's Collected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Interview with Denise Duhamel
Poet Denise Duhamel talks about form, inspiration sparked by pole-dancing dolls and movies, and the art of constructing prose poems to fit on Venetian blinds.
Kings of the F**king Sea by Dan Boehl
Jason Storms reviews Dan Boehl's Kings of the F**king Sea today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Last Poem I Loved: “Snow for Wallace Stevens” by Terrance Hayes
The only time I had the privilege to meet Jake Adam York was after a panel he participated in at the 2012 AWP Conference. The panel was called “In White:…
FUNNY WOMEN #100: Writing the Next Great American Woman’s Novel
A lot of women people (as opposed to men people, or just “people”) are upset that Wikipedia editors have created a subcategory for "American Women Novelists.” But I’m not.