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Stephanie Foo
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“Actually, I’m Not Grateful”: A Conversation with Stephanie Foo

  • Yvonne Liu
  • June 26, 2023
I found myself as a potential representative of a larger group, which had no representative. There wasn’t a first-person story about Complex Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, so I thought, “I know how to do this.”
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Speaking to Men at Parties

  • Emilia Copeland Titus
  • June 23, 2023
There are moments when the light passes just right over the high point of someone’s cheekbone and I imagine my whole life as it would have been in a different universe, tracing the events of this imaginary life from that spot on their face to my death.
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What to Read When You’ve Made it Halfway Through 2023

  • The Rumpus
  • June 23, 2023
We’ve asked Rumpus editors to share the titles forthcoming between now and the year’s end that they are most eagerly anticipating.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by J Brooke

  • J Brooke
  • June 22, 2023
I drew a house / I drew a house with a tire swing / I drew a house with a tire swing and deep green grass / I drew a house with a tire swing and deep green grass and a little pond
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Confession of Grief: Katie Marya’s Sugar Work

  • Laura LeMoon
  • June 21, 2023
Marya’s work is a slow burn; both sweet and salty, that picks up speed and ferocity as it unfolds.
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RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: Dream in Which You Cuff Me to the Bed by Dr. Taylor Byas

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  • June 21, 2023
Our August 2023 Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection is Dr. Taylor Byas‘s, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, which takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film…
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I Become More Animal When I’m Grieving: A Conversation with Jenny Sadre-Orafai

  • Beth Ward
  • June 21, 2023
So much of being a poet and a writer is also about exploration.
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Imagining a Worst-Case Scenario: John Vaillant’s Fire Weather

  • Katrya Bolger
  • June 20, 2023
The boreal forests around the town do habitually burn, and its residents were used to seeing flames over their skies in summer months.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Signal and Response

  • Nancy Nguyen
  • June 19, 2023
Researchers are investigating twins and siblings close in age for possible telepathic entanglement.
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Lyzette Wanzer
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Tangled Narratives: Curating an Anthology on the Realities of Natural Hair with Lyzette Wanzer

  • Naya Clark
  • June 19, 2023
I wanted to get Black joy into the book because that’s also part of our experiences.
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French Kissing

  • EG Shields
  • June 15, 2023
I needed to start over.
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Samantha Leach
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Deconstructing the Troubled Teen Industry: a Conversation with Samantha Leach

  • Natalie Villacorta
  • June 14, 2023
It’s culture that needs to change and not girls themselves.
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