Between Sex and Death: Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets
Survival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
Poetry
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Beyond the Manicured Surfaces: Talking with Aaron Smith
Aaron Smith discusses his new poetry collection, THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Chelsea Dingman
Hopelessness is a marriage of light / & dark.
How Patterns Break: Talking with Linda Bierds
Poet Linda Bierds discusses her newest collection, THE HARDY TREE.
Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Killa Ch’aska
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
Turning and Turning: Jericho Brown’s The Tradition
[T]his is a book in direct conversation with literary tradition.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Quenton Baker
i write the field open / while buried beneath it
Otherwordly: Talking with Rosebud Ben-Oni
Rosebud Ben-Oni discusses her new collection, TURN AROUND, BRXGHT XYXS.
Why I Chose Danez Smith’s Homie for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Roanna Shebala
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Byron F. Aspaas
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
Fragmenting Forward: Brute by Emily Skaja
After all, isn’t this often the truth of loss? What once was home becomes a graveyard.