Women’s History Month Series Lineup
March is Women’s History Month, and streamers will deliver new, groundbreaking series centering women.
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We Can and Should Go Home Again: Raye Hendrix’s What Good is Heaven
These poems feel grainy with rich texture, like sinking your hands into the soil, the way it stays between your fingers all day if you don’t scrub your hands clean.
Rumpus Original Fiction: We Tremble
I want them to say, wow look at Griselda now, thinking her shit doesn’t stink. And I’ll say back to them, it doesn’t 'cause I’m classy now!
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Logan Fry
The load can be held aloft just as long / As I’m a quarry.
ENOUGH: A Timeline of Harassment
I scramble up, smooth my dress, and slap him in the face. Hard. He takes it because he’s a nice Mormon boy.
How to Workshop with White People
Follow these other guidelines to write, workshop, and receive mildly odd to offensive critiques with dignity...
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Alex Vigue
the floor is lava // the lava is a river / this river does not drown
Voices on Addiction: Gotta Light?
Was he going to show up and tell our parents? What would we say? Would we lie? Would Sarah cry again?
A Poetics of Witness: Jeddie Sophronius’s Interrogation Records
Sophronius writes from an awareness of Chinese Indonesian marginality, yet the pulse of the collection’s counternarrative coheres around an Indonesian national identity.
Rumpus Original Fiction: I Couldn’t Say It Was Tuesday
“You need to watch the news. Aren’t you interested in the world? Very important to know what’s going on in the world.”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Gabrielle Spear
"'Words matter. They have the power to kill.'"
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Zain Aslam
On the train home, I / fell asleep and missed my stop. / The face I saw in my dream / belonged to the watch I wear.