Fathers, and Stories, and Father’s Day Stories from the Sunday Rumpus
This time last year I sat for days with my father in his room at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, recording his voice as he narrated the story of his…
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Amy Monticello
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #19: Truth
Truth—a higher, bigger truth—is what I want when I read. I want to nod my head in radical understanding. I want to grasp our complex, fragile humanity better. I want…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Kristina Marie Darling’s poetry collection, Fortress, is “image-rich” and wonderfully allusive. The setting is the famously decadent palace of Versailles. Like the film Marie Antoinette, “Darling’s book is simultaneously excess…
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A New and Magical Life
When she becomes pregnant while grieving her newly dead father, Amy Monticello rejects the comforting notions she's offered about completing the cycle of life.