Reimagining Jesus: A Conversation with Savannah Sipple
Savannah Sipple discusses her debut collection, WWJD AND OTHER POEMS.
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Posts Tagged: bodies
Rumpus Exclusive: “Coyote on Holy Mesa”
I have come to the desert in search of bones.
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Telling the Truth, Sideways: A Conversation with Tessa Fontaine
Tessa Fontaine discusses her debut memoir, THE ELECTRIC WOMAN.
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What Is Found There: Talking with Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox
Poets Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox discuss their writing.
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Ablutions: A Triptych
I am twenty the first time I turn the water red.
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We’re All Just Making It Up: Talking with Steve Hughes
Steve Hughes discusses his debut story collection, STIFF.
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Living, Breathing Art: A Conversation with Bradley Silver
Tattoo artist Bradley Silver discusses the political intersection of body art and street art, and more.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #160: Kimberly Dark
“We are all in bed with Daddy. Gendered expectations are part of our DNA.”
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Transformations: A Conversation with Genevieve Hudson
Genevieve Hudson discusses her debut story collection, PRETEND WE LIVE HERE.
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Tiamat on the Treadmill
The gym is a place where the body is primary.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #156: Steph Auteri
“I wanted my book to open up a conversation.”
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Our Beautiful Fragility: A Conversation with Lisa Locascio
Lisa Locascio discusses her debut novel, OPEN ME.
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Naked in Japan
Thin bodies, thick bodies, fit bodies, round bodies. I’d never seen so much flesh.
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A Lumpy, Misshapen Book: Talking with Elissa Washuta
Elissa Washuta discusses her chapbook, STARVATION MODE.
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The Thread: All in My Head
I am in a war, and some of the toughest battles happen in my head.
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A Séance of a Book: Talking with Allie Rowbottom
Allie Rowbottom discusses her debut memoir, JELL-O GIRLS.
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A Two-Hour Dance Class in Thirty Minutes
When she called out for floor performance I knew this would not be my day.
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Struggling toward Truth: Porochista Khakpour’s Sick
Khakpour gathers courage, again and again, as she reaches into the most painful parts of her life, excavates them, and holds them up to the light.
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You Like That, Baby?: The Myth of Feminine Mystery
“It’s like a damn Rubik’s cube down there!”
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Effacement of the Mother
When I came home from war, I felt relief. Now that I’m home after childbirth, I’m still waiting for relief. War ends. Motherhood does not.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #135: Patrick Nathan
“I wanted to make these characters much more complex than the individual boxes we normally see.”
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Brighde Moffat
If there is going to be pain, let it be by choice.
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What Did You Expect, Though?
The immune system, meant to protect a body from foreign invaders, works too assiduously, sees danger where there is none, turns on itself. Such conditions lend themselves to metaphor.
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Sylvia Plath and Reclaiming the Gaze
Perhaps as women we are always trying to record the gaze. Marginalized people are often asked to validate our distrust, trepidation, and fear.
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ENOUGH: While the Wild Dogs in Me Strain at Their Leashes
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Becoming Bodies
[W]e wanted something different from each other’s bodies than what was actually there, which might be why our bodies sometimes came together.
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How to Keep Score
I’m still working on this balance, and given that I only have about eighty or ninety years tops to get it right, I doubt I ever will.
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How We Cycle through Our Lives: Talking with Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer discusses her new essay collection, Circadian, her writing process, and the body as text.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kamilah Aisha Moon
Kamilah Aisha Moon discusses her new collection, Starshine & Clay, the power of naming, and the connection between creation and trauma.
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