Posts Tagged: confederate

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Natasha Trethewey

By

Natasha Trethewey discusses her new collection, MONUMENT: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED.

...more

The Lens Magnifies, the Mirror Reflects: What Photos from the Race War Show Us about Ourselves

By

[Still photos] grab what otherwise might feel too foreign to understand.

...more

Interrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair

By

To be forced to speak in the language of the colonist, the language of the oppressor, while also carrying within us the storm of Jamaican patois, we live under a constant hurricane of our doubleness.

...more

Wanted/Needed/Loved: Laura Ballance’s Ghost Stories

By

There is one story that my mother used to tell me often, which has become in some ways a symbol of my childhood.

...more

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

By

(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) So, #AskELJames got a little out of control, huh? But was it justified push back? Or was it just online harassment? Own a piece of literary history. I wonder if they’d take .004% down? Princesses powered by flatulence. Learning your […]

...more

The Rumpus in your inbox!

* indicates required