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Rumpus Original Fiction: Red Cedar

  • Colleen Morrissey
  • May 29, 2023
A living tree is a dare.
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The Fragile Ecology of Teenage Boyhood in Shy: A Conversation with Max Porter

  • Hamilton Cain
  • May 29, 2023
We have to be urgent and radical in our belief that some solutions exist . . .
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Voices On Addiction: Speaking Ill of the Dead

  • Juliane Bergmann
  • May 26, 2023
I have always felt stuck in the quicksand of Wanting-Things-To-Be-Different.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by E. Hughes

  • E. Hughes
  • May 25, 2023
I want to fashion my black mouth to speak this / journey of our bodies into utterance: What / does one call this road between us?
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Against a Singular Story: A Conversation with Jane Wong

  • Margaret Juhae Lee
  • May 24, 2023
In many ways, community is that which allows the heart to heal, and to heal that heart together.
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Memory Among Landscape: Alissa Hattman’s Sift

  • Hannah Pass
  • May 23, 2023
. . . in a barren world with little protection and corners to hide, it’s also impossible to hide from our thoughts . . .
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Prescriptions

  • Ruth Madievsky
  • May 22, 2023
I wore sobriety like a shirt that was too tight in the shoulders, and everyone around me knew it.
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The Poem as an Archive of Your Life and the World Around You: The Rumpus Interview with Clint Smith

  • Regie Gibson
  • May 22, 2023
. . . intellectual rigor or artistic integrity don’t have to come at the expense of legibility . . .
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Sketch Book Reviews: Night Vision

  • Kateri Kramer
  • May 19, 2023
I love it when a book forces me to reassess my thinking on a particular subject.
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Humans Don’t Live Long Enough

  • Tiara Shelley and Katie Nieland
  • May 18, 2023
if we are lucky / if we work very hard
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We Are More: Two Poems

  • Sara Abou Rashed
  • May 17, 2023
I’ll keep at it until something in me leaks                
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Very Little of This Book Is Made-up: Talking with R.F. Kuang about her Novel

  • Amy Y. Q. Lin
  • May 17, 2023
I don’t think there are easy answers. Should we make judgments about rudeness when we talk about artistic freedom?
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