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Ukemi, The Art of Receiving

In Japanese martial arts, the uke is the 'receiver' of the technique, the one who attempts to attack their sparring partner, the tori. The tori defends against the attack of the uke, who usually winds up on the floor after getting flipped, swept, thrown, punched, or kicked.

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Keetje Kuipers

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Keetje Kuipers about her new book The Keys to the Jail, alter egos, landscapes, political poems, and how the fictionalized and the real inhabit the same space.

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Litany for My Mother’s Body

My mother’s body horrified me. Nine years old, I watched her dress. Her belly was rippled and sagged and scarred—a used-up bag of nothing.

The Rumpus Interview with Anthony Doerr

Novelist and short story writer Anthony Doerr sits down to discuss supplementing research with imagination, conjuring "a time when radio was still a miracle," and why writers should use the textures and sensory details at their disposal.

Funny Women #117: How’s that Barnard Thing Working out for You?

Are you a Part of the Solution? Didn't Bono turn out great? What kind of work do you do by the way?

Cult Classic: Richard Siken’s Crush

It is a world where camp has replaced art. There is something safe and comforting in the smallness of this world; it is a world we recognize.

Swinging Modern Sounds #54: Jam Band Apotheosis

Back in the seventies, in circles I travelled in, you could not escape the Grateful Dead, even if you wanted to—and I was someone who wanted to.

The Rumpus Interview with Porochista Khakpour

Writer Porochista Khakpour discusses her new novel, The Last Illusion, her desire to literalize the surreal, the role addiction plays for her characters and narrative, and being a lover of outsider stories.

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Post-Partum Regression

My husband went back to work, and then my mom flew back to Florida, and it was just me and the baby. Alone together, but no longer the us we had been when I was pregnant.

The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Sean Madigan Hoen

"I wanted to convey the ecstatic experience of performing really destructive music, and to articulate the kind of raw need that drives young people to do so."

The Last Book I Loved: Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann

The way LTGWS lovingly caressed every carnal description of Manhattan’s byways and alleys, tenement flats, assisted-living towers, and half-way houses was a revelation in today’s post-Minimalist world.

The Rumpus Review of 12 O’Clock Boys

The new documentary 12 O’Clock Boys is the latest example of Baltimore’s restless creative energy... a film that stands up to its inevitable comparisons with [David] Simon’s urban epic.

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