Read Rumpus Original Voices on Addiction Voices on Addiction: Keep It Simple, Sweetheart Sandra ShattuckOctober 18, 2021 Finding joy in the now, even as death and difficulty mark the days, is possible, a choice, and a practice.Read
Read Letters Blog Next Letter in the Mail: Michele Filgate The RumpusOctober 18, 2021 Our next Letter in the Mail is from Michele Filgate! Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Bright Buoy, Dark Sea: Kelli Russell Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides Lauren K. CarlsonOctober 15, 2021 Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.Read
Read Poems Poetry Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jessica Le Jessica LeOctober 14, 2021 The steam wallows out of the kettle and your book’s pages / turn themselves.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Fiction: On Sight Brian LinOctober 13, 2021 You stood and put your hair up. It made you a different man. You got hard and decided you were why.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion Patrycja HumienikOctober 13, 2021 With Sarah Ghazal Ali, Erin L. McCoy, and Tawanda Mulalu.Read
Read ENOUGH Politics Rumpus Original Sex ENOUGH: Some Would Call It Rape The RumpusOctober 12, 2021 A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Projective Wonder: Imagine Us, the Swarm by Muriel Leung Julie Marie WadeOctober 8, 2021 The individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original From the Outside In: Talking with Ellene Glenn Moore Julie Marie WadeOctober 8, 2021 Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.Read
Read Poems Poetry Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Bryan Byrdlong Bryan ByrdlongOctober 7, 2021 We / not a boat people / rather / water // undammed / a waiting hurricaneRead
Read ENOUGH Politics Rumpus Original Sex ENOUGH: White Lab Coat, No Face The RumpusOctober 5, 2021 A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.Read
Read Book Club Blog Why We Chose Cynthia Dewi Oka’s Fire Is Not a Country for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Brian SpearsOctober 4, 2021 What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!Read