Holding Together What’s Left: The Blues of Heaven by Barbara Ras
You want to, but do you? Do you dare hope?
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Posts Tagged: climate crisis
How It Would Feel to Be Free: Olivia Laing’s Everybody
Pleasures and possibilities, though, come hard-won in this book.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Wendy J. Fox
Wendy J. Fox discusses her new story collection, WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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Bright Buoy, Dark Sea: Kelli Russell Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides
Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.
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Lamentation for Songbirds
If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Cai Emmons
Cai Emmons discusses her new novel, SINKING ISLANDS.
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Reimagining Place in the Pandemic
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.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Thomas Farber
“As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Callum Angus
“When I first came out as trans, I learned a lot from trans youth; they taught me so much.”
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Stitching the Sea Together: A Conversation with Kathryn Smith
Kathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise
For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
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The Privilege of Anxiety: Mark O’Connell’s Notes from an Apocalypse
What does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #229: Joshua Harmon
“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”
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In Protest of a Body that Refuses to End
All I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.
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Losing Paradise
What my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.
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Radical Enough
I still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.
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A Vocabulary for Apostates
I needed to reshape the definitions of words that were used against me.
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On Loss of Land and Loss of Girlhood: Taneum Bambrick’s Vantage
Girlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers discusses her new collection, THE TILT TORN AWAY FROM THE SEASONS.
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All These Ostriches: A Conversation with R. Eric Thomas
R. Eric Thomas discusses his debut memoir-in-essays, HERE FOR IT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #206: Tina May Hall
“[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”
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Metamorphoses: The Uninhabitable Earth and The Overstory
And then, from this scorched landscape, transformation.
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Lesbian Poetry’s Vatic Voices: The Specter of Ecocatastrophe
Change happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
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Paying Attention: Elizabeth Jacobson’s Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air
Looking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
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The Climate of Feeling: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk
Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
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The Planet Will Survive Us: A Conversation with Liz Breazeale
Liz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.
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Between Sex and Death: Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets
Survival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
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Turning Purple: Blood Feast
It isn’t until I look at my wife’s face that I can feel my own fear.
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Energizing the Choir: A Conversation with Lindy West
Lindy West discusses her new essay collection, THE WITCHES ARE COMING.
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