The Last Poems I Loved: The Angel Island Poems
Like Alcatraz, Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay is often shrouded in fog. From 1910 to 1940, the island housed the immigration station and detention center for the West…
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The Rumpus Interview with Peter Aguero
Master storyteller and Moth regular Peter Aguero talks about family dysfunction, fighting with hammers, and how not to bomb onstage.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #169
PEPÈ LE PEW ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Pepé Le Pew.
Field Trip to the Earthquake Lab, 2010
The plan was not to cause an earthquake. The USGS would tell you that this is nearly impossible. They would tell you that humans are just too insignificant to affect the seismicity of our planet.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kat Meads
Lidia Yuknavitch talks with her former Chiasmus author, Kat Meads, about her new novel, For You, Madam Lenin, plots a publishing revolution, and asks, "Is feminism dead or just in dire need of a blow job?"
Saturday Rumpus Interview With Ben Strader
I wondered what that must be like, spending not a month at a writer's colony, but your whole life.
Saturday Rumpus Essay: Art at Work
Even while the work just barely paid my bills, I had to make it work for me on an entirely different level. I knew art could transform so much meaninglessness.
The Lonely Voice #22: RIP Richard Stern
Richard Stern has died. Stern was a short story writer, novelist, and essayist. I’ve always been particularly fond of Stern’s short stories, which are as emotionally raw as they are…
The Rumpus Interview with Jill McDonough
Poet Jill McDonough chats about teaching in prisons, controversial art exhibits, getting lost in research, and writing fifty sonnets about American executions.
Running Away from Running Away
The Traveler’s Inn is a motor lodge on Reserve Street in Missoula, Montana, and the tired lady behind the desk is asking me how long I plan to stay. I…