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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by John A. Nieves
Balladeer Quatrains This slant-ass love song is for six storeys of cement and light and how it held every portable us blanket-swaddled against scattering. This is for…
RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: WHY I WRITE LOVE POETRY IN A BURNING WORLD by Katie Farris
Our April 2023 Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection is Katie Farris's Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
The Freedom of Form & Re-Entering Myths: An interview with A.E. Stallings
Our lives may seem to be lived on the small scale of the everyday but, because we are mortal, because ultimately everything is at stake, also play out against something universal and important.
What to Read When Celebrating Black History
The Rumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month
Seas of Discourse: Zülfü Livaneli’s The Fisherman and His Son
people do not fight their battles in isolation between mountains of seawater or in a vacuum of hypermasculine idealism; they suffer together and sometimes apart with a thin connective tissue strung between them.
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Litany of Invisible Things
The sound of love: you and him. Once upon a time.
The page is the stage: An interview with Junious Ward
“If you’re gonna push form, you’ve got to really push it.”
Q&A with Allegra Hyde, author of Rumpus Book Club’s April pick, THE LAST CATASTROPHE
a revelatory collection that reminds us our world is precious, and protecting it has the potential to bring us all together.
Yearning and Wandering: Tiff Dressen’s Of Mineral
The earth is fertile ground for seeking one’s roots and connection to others.