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Shining a Light on Sins of the South: A Review of Han VanderHart’s What Pecan Light

  • Janice Northerns
  • June 8, 2022
In What Pecan Light VanderHart seeks to address “the white ghosts / of the South” by bringing them to the light for all to see.
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She Wanted to Be the Hero: A Conversation with Vanessa Hua

  • Dana Liu
  • June 8, 2022
The details that go unremarked are very powerful because it assumes this is the way things are. It's not unusual. It's just the way these people live.
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At the Playground

  • Lucas Mann
  • June 7, 2022
We say . . .
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A History That Looks Forward: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

  • Beau Lee Gambold
  • June 7, 2022
. . . there are still, and always have been, other ways [of living].
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Feast

  • Ross Showalter
  • June 6, 2022
I’m the only deaf person at the party, again.
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Resurrection on a daily basis: Exploring The Hurting Kind with Ada Limón

  • Annelies Zijderveld
  • June 6, 2022
How do we face the world and also love the world? That's one of the questions of my life, maybe.
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FUNNY WOMEN: A Novel, a Short Story, a Memoir, and a Poem Walk into a Bar

  • Sarah Totton
  • June 3, 2022
"Poem and I are better at sex than you two," said the short story accurately. "We get in. We get out. Boom. Done."
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From the Archive: The Rumpus Interview with Lacy M. Johnson

  • Melissa Chadburn
  • June 3, 2022
The Other Side author Lacy M. Johnson talks about the experience of being kidnapped, overcoming trauma, and fighting the George Wills of the world.
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From the Archive: Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Three Poems by Fatimah Asghar

  • Fatimah Asghar
  • June 2, 2022
& yes, my family did raise me right. Yes, / they cleaned their bones & cracked them clean / open to suck. Would fight over cartilage & knuckle/Sip the marrow’s nectar from urn. .
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Less angst, more action

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  • June 1, 2022
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The Pressure and Pursuit of Desires: Talking Flash Fiction with Tommy Dean

  • Hannah Grieco
  • June 1, 2022
I care deeply about these characters who decide to act and react to the conflicts and tensions around them even if they fail, especially when they fail.
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A Brutal Look at Black Girlhood: Bethany C. Morrow’s Cherish Farrah

  • Lyndsey Ellis
  • May 31, 2022
Farrah’s not a "good" victim, but does that mean she’s not a victim? More importantly, is she allowed to be both a victim and an offender?
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