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The Rumpus Interview with Keith Lee Morris

  • Kevin Sterne
  • March 28, 2016
Keith Lee Morris discusses his latest book Traveler’s Rest, Lewis and Clark, and how writing a novel about dreams requires much more than sleep.
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The Conversation: Desiree Bailey and Sean DesVignes

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  • March 27, 2016
For me, intersectionality is a reality that I can’t escape.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: On Theft

  • Toni Nealie
  • March 27, 2016
Maybe this is what compelled Stella to plunder goods without paying. Her mother had been taken, her heart song snatched away. The stealing became her mourning.
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The Conversation: Cortney Lamar Charleston and Danez Smith

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  • March 26, 2016
The South is my favorite cousin.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Thoughts on My Ancestry.com DNA Results

  • Tyrese L. Coleman
  • March 26, 2016
There were chains. History books always describe the chains.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: As Soon as I Stop

  • Brad Collins
  • March 25, 2016
I feel dizzy, but I've got the donkey's tail in my hand and if I pin it just right, my whole life could change.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Desiree Cooper

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • March 25, 2016
Desiree Cooper discusses her debut collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, what mother-writers need, and why motherhood is the only story she’s ever told.
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The Slow Fall of the Hot Heroine

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • March 24, 2016
If nothing else, it’s the opinion of other women that encroaches on mine. Resemblances spark my joy; differences become character flaws.
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Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree | Rumpus Music
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Albums of Our Lives: The Mountain Goats’s The Sunset Tree

  • Ray Shea
  • March 24, 2016
I knew if I could make it out of town, make it to college, I would survive. But I wasn't sure I would.
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Cat Town

  • Linnie Greene
  • March 23, 2016
I’d never postpone my dreams for a man. But for my cats?
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The Rumpus Interview with Amy Sohn

  • Alizah Salario
  • March 23, 2016
At the end of the day, all we have to hold onto, really, is other people’s stories. And that’s how Alizah Solario's series “Writers on Wheels Getting Tea” was born. The first interview features author Amy Sohn.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Not That Town

  • David Biespiel
  • March 22, 2016
Times like those lead you to believe that writing is, before it’s anything else, about simply getting it straight.
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