Read Features & Reviews Reviews Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour Kathryn WalkiewiczNovember 24, 2021 To be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight Tatiana Johnson-BoriaSeptember 17, 2021 In Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Lightning Rods and Line Breaks: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed Willie Lee Kinard IIISeptember 3, 2021 Frighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.Read
Read Book Club Blog Features & Reviews Music Poetry Rumpus Original The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kevin Simmonds The Rumpus Book ClubJuly 27, 2021 Kevin Simmonds discusses his new collection, THE MONSTER I AM TODAY.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Not the Only One: A Conversation with Zakiya Dalila Harris Kukuwa AshunJune 2, 2021 Zakiya Dalila Harris discusses her debut novel, THE OTHER BLACK GIRL.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Exorcising Whiteness: Khalisa Rae’s Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat Nicole Shawan JuniorMay 7, 2021 Rae presents America as seen through Black girls’ eyes, experienced by our bodies.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Depths of Story: Who’s Your Daddy by Arisa White Keisha BushApril 23, 2021 The inherited wounds cut so deep one wonders if they can ever be fully healed.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Belonging Is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton Donna HemansMarch 1, 2021 Georgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Doublethink: A Conversation with Cortney Lamar Charleston Julian RandallFebruary 15, 2021 Cortney Lamar Charleston discusses his new poetry collection, DOPPELGANGBANGER.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Fiction: Black Talk Diana VeigaDecember 30, 2020 She wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Stories without Veils: Talking with Athena Dixon Tonya AbariNovember 30, 2020 Athena Dixon discusses her debut memoir-in-essays, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Out of What Remains: Talking with Jacinta V. White KaToya Ellis FlemingNovember 11, 2020 Jacinta V. White discusses her collection of poetry, RESURRECTING THE BONES.Read