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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #75: Deborah Kampmeier

I met Deborah Kampmeier at a workshop in November. We were two weeks post-election; the room was raw with emotion, and electric with conversations about resistance. This tall, badass woman dressed…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 8): “Song of the Gourd”

“Song of the Gourd” is like an eye roll at this sort of gusto about leaving the Southland.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson discusses her latest novel Another Brooklyn, the little deaths of lost friendships, and her work with children across the country as the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate.

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Politics

Crybaby College Students and Their Bogus Trophies

I’m a small blue dot living in a blood-red corner of a red state, so I’ve grown accustomed to hearing right wing talking points. I don’t like them, but they…

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Politics

Post-Election Dispatch: Charleston, SC

Right now as I write this, smoke from fires in the southeastern Appalachian Mountains haze the morning. We’re under orange alert—the air quality bad enough that schoolchildren will stay indoors…

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The Night Wash Jones Won

Eighty years ago, Wash Jones appeared as a minor character in William Faulkner’s masterpiece on American identity and self-invention, Absalom, Absalom! From a craft perspective Jones was put in for…

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Kurt Wagner’s One-of-a-Kind Hat

I try not to think about fashion. It’s more that I want to settle on something to wear so I don’t have to think about it.

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The Rumpus Review of Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation

Parker set out to bring a different kind of “slavery movie” to audiences. And it is different.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #55: Donald Ray Pollock

Donald Ray Pollock has been steadily serving up plates of mild horror since his first book of short stories, Knockemstiff, appeared in 2008. Pollock followed the explosion of Knockemstiff with…

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The Rumpus Interview with Brian Booker

Brian Booker discusses his debut collection Are You Here For What I’m Here For?, giving characters strange and unusual names, and sleeping sickness.

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Rumpus Original

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Pain Scale Treaties

Perched on the shoulders of generational trauma sit these two theses: suffering begets cruelty begets suffering begets cruelty, and pain is empathy’s catalyst.

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Other

This Week in Short Fiction

This week, Guernica has a new story from author and veteran Odie Lindsey, whose debut story collection about soldiers coming home from war, We Come to Our Senses, will be…

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