Blogs
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FUNNY WOMEN #78: Ambivalent Affirmations
Hey ladyfriend, are you going through a breakup? Is your job really hard right now? Is your life nothing more than all-consuming darkness and regret?
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Poetry Book Club News
Our April poet, Carmen Giménez Smith, was featured on NPR’s NewsPoet series. (NewsPoet has featured Rumpus Poetry Book Club poet and recent Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith as well.) Check it out. And if you’d like to become a…
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About Your Letters
I moved to New York the week I turned twenty. I lived on the fifth floor of an East Village walk-up with a boyfriend I was too young to realize I shouldn’t have been with, and I got a job…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Richard Nash recently gave this talk at an event for Grub Street. If you haven’t heard Richard wax on publishing in general, and his latest venture, Small Demons, in particular, you should check it out. Small Demons is a pretty…
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The Grief Performance, by Emily Kendal Frey
Emily Kendal Frey’s compact, laconic poems from her first collection, The Grief Performance, outwit, outlast, and, eponymously, outperform not only death, but failure, ennui, and despair. How, you ask? For starters, the speaker of The Grief Performance treats poems as if they were contingent…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #98: Monsters and Ghosts
You swam across a wide and wild sea and you made it all the way to the other side.
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Peculiar Benefits
What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.
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Inmost, by Jessica Fisher
Many of the most interesting lyric books of the past few years have attempted a sort of reckoning between contemporary life and the reality of ceaseless war. Nick Flynn’s The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, Fanny Howe’s Come…
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SELF-MADE MAN #9: Passing
I don’t know if this is the biology of it, but on the day of my testosterone shot sometimes I think I can feel my vocal chords widening, a throaty expansion.
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A Letter to the People Who Wrote Letters to Each Other
A month ago we announced Letters to Each Other, which allowed subscribers to Letters in the Mail to send a one page letter and SASE.
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Today’s Required Reading
At Guernica, Randa Jarrar writes about this one time when she tried to visit her sister in Palestine and she was deported by Israel. I was so afraid of facing the guards at the airport that I had a difficult…