Rumpus Exclusive: “Sacred Stories”
All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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Posts Tagged: childhood
I Had to Go There: Talking with Enzo Silon Surin
Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
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Too Earnest for Twitter: A Conversation with Cameron Esposito
Cameron Esposito discusses her new memoir, SAVE YOURSELF.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”
How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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My Father’s Guide to Field Dressing an Elk
Around here, we don’t waste meat, and we don’t waste life.
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Losing the World
When we begin life, language is play.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Alice Bag’s Queen’s Quilt
My parents told me, “This is a special one for the queen.”
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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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Poetry as Archeology: Talking with Roy G. Guzmán
Roy G. Guzmán discusses their debut collection, CATRACHOS.
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For the Love of Dogs: Jennifer Finney Boylan’s Good Boy
In this sense, [the dogs] are a perfect foil for the conflicted young author.
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On Anger, Autism, and Blackness
The rage and frustration overwhelmed all rational thought.
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ENOUGH: The Most Important Thing a Woman Could Be
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Ada Bloom Finds the Windmill”
Ada followed her song deeper into the bush, until the windmill loomed up before her.
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Teddy Ruxpin
There’s a collective guilt. So, our parents buy us friends.
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Father Time Is Undefeated
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Lisbon, the Truncated City”
Our love of the superfluous is helpful in better understanding ourselves.
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ENOUGH: The Innocence of a Skirt Too Far Above the Knees
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Poetics of Lineage
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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Rendering Memory: A Conversation with Abby Frucht
Abby Frucht discusses her first collection of poetry, MAIDS.
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The Thread: Lacuna
If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
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Geography of Peaks and Dips and Lights
I looked out the window again, and there it still was.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Mr. Burley
My favorite was usually the smallest, the most alive.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Call It Courage”
She was living in little shack balanced among the branches of a tree.
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Doesn’t It Keep You Up at Night?
The dark holds me as long as I will let it.
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On Monsters: In Darkness and in Light
This month, take a deep dive into The Rumpus’s psyche.
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On Being Seen by Toni Morrison
It’s never too late to read Toni Morrison for the first time.
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Split Chins, Open Coats
My whistle was useless. Using it felt like an insult.
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A Different Kind of Balance: Talking with Samantha Giles
Poet Samantha Giles discusses her newest collection, TOTAL RECALL.
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