The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #227: Karen Salyer McElmurray
“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Happens to Girls
There is pleasure in his eyes that is not just good acting.
ENOUGH: The Telling of It
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #217: Sue William Silverman
“Our memories are always in flux.”
ENOUGH: Beautiful Teeth
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project #216: Corinne Manning
“I’ve never had a book happen to me the way WE HAD NO RULES did.”
Poetics of Lineage
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
ENOUGH: They Have So Many Ways to Keep Us Quiet
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
Both Reckoning and Embrace: Dorianne Laux’s Only As The Day Is Long
As the book continues, [Laux] traces a growing understanding of loss.
Where Speech Fails Us: Talking with Martin Jude Farawell
Poet Martin Jude Farawell discusses his debut full-length collection, ODD BOY.
ENOUGH: Original Fiction: The Lines of the Space Between Us
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
Lady Justice
I imagine Lady Justice’s fingers tipping the scales: Rose to leave, and me to sleep.