Rumpus Original
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The No-Man’s Land Between Art and Self: Seth Rogoff’s The Kirschbaum Lectures
We look for ourselves in literature—for comfort or for guidance—but the page rarely provides a clean mirror.
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Lera
You keep the edge of your love sharp, a knife, so that those close to you know to handle it carefully. You think you’ve done it and then you discover that you’ve been endangering yourself to everybody you meet all…
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Broadening the Scope of the Environmental Canon: An Interview with Camille T. Dungy
Some books defy categories. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) by poet Camille T. Dungy pushes the limits of what readers might expect from any genre. Is it memoir or environmental literature?The book covers…
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National Poetry Month Day 30: Joshua Aiken
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 29: Nicole Sealey
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 28: Tarik Dobbs
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 27: Brandy Nālani McDougall
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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RUMPUS BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: THIS WARM AND BREATHING THING by JENNIFER FLISS
Our June 2023 Rumpus Book Club selection is Jennifer Fliss’s As If She Had a Say. Read an excerpt and subscribe by May 15 to the Book Club to receive this title and an invitation to an exclusive conversation with…
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National Poetry Month Day 26: Aaron Coleman
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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the strange, the surprising, the slightly off-center: A Rumpus Conversation with J. Bailey Hutchinson
part of my fixation with textured and torqued language . . . stems from growing up in the South, where figurative language isn’t limited to formal literary spaces.
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National Poetry Month Day 25: Aerik Francis
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
