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Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned

  • M Jaime Zuckerman
  • July 10, 2020
In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #218: Rufi Thorpe

  • Frances Yackel
  • May 21, 2020
“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Chelsea Bieker

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • April 21, 2020
Chelsea Bieker discusses her debut novel, GODSHOT.
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The Thread: Hairy Mary Full of Grace

  • Marissa Korbel
  • December 17, 2019
What a strange depiction. Mary, mother of Jesus, covered in hair.
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Afrofuturist Triptych for My Mother

  • Delali Ayivor
  • November 19, 2019
This is what I think of when I think of home; Africa is my altar.
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Everything Tastes Better in Winter

  • Lucia Iglesias
  • October 29, 2019
Perfection over pasta. Beauty over bread. The more it hurt, the better.
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Barren Spaces

  • Zainab A. Omaki
  • October 3, 2019
I know some people believe it’s just hair. That it’s not a big deal.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #194: Sarah Rose Etter

  • M. Randal O’Wain
  • September 26, 2019
“[H]opefully, the book is surreal but also universal.”
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The Myth of the Lazy Mothers

  • Ukamaka Olisakwe
  • September 24, 2019
I worried that I no longer knew myself.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Palehound’s Special Skateboard

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • June 20, 2019
In a lot of ways, I kind of gave up on my body.
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Unclenching the Body: A Conversation with Jennifer Pastiloff

  • Marissa Korbel
  • June 5, 2019
Jennifer Pastiloff discusses her first book, ON BEING HUMAN.
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Reimagining Jesus: A Conversation with Savannah Sipple

  • Rebecca Gayle Howell
  • April 10, 2019
Savannah Sipple discusses her debut collection, WWJD AND OTHER POEMS.
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