Features & Reviews
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Bright Buoy, Dark Sea: Kelli Russell Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides
Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.
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Every Separation Is a Link: A Conversation with Yanara Friedland
Yanara Friedland discusses her book-length essay GROUNDSWELL.
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Wow, Mom!: Mom Genes by Abigail Tucker
The best books I have read about motherhood have not reassured me that these feelings will resolve.
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Sarah Ghazal Ali, Erin L. McCoy, and Tawanda Mulalu.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Flop, Turn, River”
“You should only bluff if you are prepared for the life it brings you,” my dad said. “You bluff, then you can’t go back.”
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Reclaiming the Roots of Self-Care: A Conversation with Nneka M. Okona
Nneka M. Okona discusses her new book, SELF-CARE FOR GRIEF.
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Projective Wonder: Imagine Us, the Swarm by Muriel Leung
The individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.
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From the Outside In: Talking with Ellene Glenn Moore
Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.
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Creating a Fractured Whole: Megan Culhane Galbraith’s The Guild of the Infant Saviour
To have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.
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Performing Violence: A Conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
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Trying to See a Future: Talking with Beth Gilstrap
Beth Gilstrap discusses her new story collection, DEADHEADING.
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What to Read When the Story Refuses to End
Jen Fawkes shares a reading list to celebrate TALES THE DEVIL TOLD ME.