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No Unnecessary Touching: A Conversation with C. Kubasta

  • Stuart Ross
  • October 2, 2020
C. Kubasta discusses her new collection, ABJECTIFICATION: STORIES & TRUTHS.
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Blood Falls: On Self-Harm and Making Pain Visible

  • Courtney Cook
  • July 2, 2019
Always present and never heard, like the pain I feel but don’t know how to share.
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Woven from Dreams: A Conversation with Kiki Petrosino

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • April 27, 2018
Kiki Petrosino discusses her newest collection, Witch Wife, the career she'd have in an alternate universe, and the relationship between reading and writing.
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Album of the Week: Blood by Rhye

  • Guia Cortassa
  • February 6, 2018
"The past is in your blood, it’s about genetics, it’s about love, your heart."
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: We Be Bleeding

  • Jen Palmares Meadows
  • January 15, 2017
It will be red like your neighbor's convertible. And like that convertible, there will be a spreading open, an exposure of vulnerable flesh.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Shane McCrae

  • Derek Gromadzki
  • November 27, 2016
I think that the moment we’re living in offers the best opportunity we’ve had in a long time in that a lot of things having to do with identity politics are being talked about in poems.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Milwaukee. Rust. A Baby.

  • Jennifer Fliss
  • July 24, 2016
By the light of early morning, I am writhing in pain again, the drugs are done. But there is a tiny creature—mammal, female—attached to my breast. That is supposed to make it more bearable.
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The Read Along: Megha Majumdar

  • Kelsey Osgood
  • July 8, 2016
Megha Majumdar on Russian spies, child-sized newspapers, and why reading difficult fiction can invigorate, rather than depress.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Infarct, I Did

  • Eaton Hamilton
  • June 18, 2016
This essay is not about love. Love doesn’t enter into it. We are talking mechanics. Four chambers, ventricles and atria. The mammalian heart, and thus, the bat heart, and thus, the human heart.
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The Surgeon’s Stitches

  • Hal Sundt
  • October 19, 2015
“They were stupid questions because he already knew the answers to them,” Dad said. “He just hadn’t taken the time to think about them. And questions you haven’t thought out are stupid ones.”
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Kill Them All

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 16, 2015
Arielle Bernstein, Rumpus Film/TV/Media and Saturday Editor, writes about Rihanna, bitches, and blood over at Salon: Women are raised on images of toxic masculinity just like the men around us are.…
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Mad Max: Fury Road

  • Devin O'Neill
  • July 4, 2015
But of course, our world isn’t actually dead yet. This is fiction, and we’re watching a movie.
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