Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Christine Kwon
I’m a poet, I say, finally, / throwing up my hands, / but she just sits there with this look.
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From the Archive: Why Writing Matters in the Age of Despair
No word is wasted. No story is told in vain.
From the Archive: The Dark All Around Us
There is still light in the dark. This is the paradox that Little Bear has to accept in order to fall asleep.
From the Archive: Unbound
It’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.
Laughing Through It: Emily Austin’s Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Morbid humor exists for a reason: to poke fun at our inevitable ends and lighten its emotional load.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Amy Mackelden and Dr. Dylan Jaggard
“We wanted to give voice to people who are often spoken for.”
A Girl-Body Filled with Animals
There was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
Electric Synthesis: Drakkar Noir by Michael Chang
Chang’s style imitates internet culture and the patterns of an anxious mind. But there’s also glamour.
The Space Between Vertebrae
My hands grow cold and rigid. In those blue-tinged palms, I can see my future.
Writing Toward Feeling: Talking with Jean Kyoung Frazier
Jean Kyoung Frazier discusses her debut novel, PIZZA GIRL.