Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Holding Together What’s Left: The Blues of Heaven by Barbara Ras Kelly TerwilligerNovember 5, 2021 You want to, but do you? Do you dare hope?Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews How It Would Feel to Be Free: Olivia Laing’s Everybody Elissa FaveroNovember 3, 2021 Pleasures and possibilities, though, come hard-won in this book.Read
Read Book Club Blog Features & Reviews Rumpus Original The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Wendy J. Fox The Rumpus Book ClubOctober 20, 2021 Wendy J. Fox discusses her new story collection, WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Bright Buoy, Dark Sea: Kelli Russell Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides Lauren K. CarlsonOctober 15, 2021 Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.Read
Read Rumpus Original Lamentation for Songbirds Lindsey Trout HughesSeptember 30, 2021 If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.Read
Read Book Club Blog Features & Reviews Rumpus Original The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Cai Emmons The Rumpus Book ClubAugust 18, 2021 Cai Emmons discusses her new novel, SINKING ISLANDS.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Reimagining Place in the Pandemic Edward DerbyAugust 17, 2021 This collection suggests again and again that poets and poetry are conjoined with such places—found on a map and indelibly mapped to the psyche.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Thomas Farber Leland CheukAugust 12, 2021 “As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Callum Angus Elanor BrokerApril 8, 2021 “When I first came out as trans, I learned a lot from trans youth; they taught me so much.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Stitching the Sea Together: A Conversation with Kathryn Smith Aileen Keown VauxFebruary 26, 2021 Kathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.Read
Read Music Rick Moody Rumpus Original Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise Rick MoodyFebruary 11, 2021 For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.Read
Read Rumpus Original For Now Jessica WahlstromNovember 5, 2020 If I get sick again and I can’t get better, my heart will break too intensely.Read