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Form Revealing Itself: A Conversation with Liz Prato

  • Katie Collins-Guinn
  • September 9, 2020
Liz Prato discusses her essay collection VOLCANOES, PALM TREES, AND PRIVILEGE.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Reina with White Roses

  • Nadya Agrawal
  • August 26, 2020
A block away from my house, Reina killed herself.
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Straining Toward “Memory Care”: Victoria Chang’s Obit

  • Kion You
  • July 24, 2020
For Chang, figurative language proves unsatisfactory when compared to the depth of her grief.
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Voices on Addiction: Primary Source

  • Jennie Burke
  • July 14, 2020
Anything we write now is a primary source.
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A Cave of Catharsis: Code by Charlotte Pence

  • Edward Derby
  • June 26, 2020
Grief sneaks up on you, and so does this book.
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Resistance Against Erasure: Talking with Marianne Chan

  • Sarah Haas
  • June 22, 2020
Marianne Chan discusses her debut poetry collection, ALL HEATHENS.
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Losing the World

  • Amanda Montei
  • June 16, 2020
When we begin life, language is play.
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Permadeath

  • Marlin M. Jenkins
  • June 16, 2020
All your efforts and still you must reckon with this end.
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Flesh and Blood: A Conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko

  • Rosanna Warren
  • June 5, 2020
Oksana Zabuzhko discusses her story collection, YOUR AD COULD GO HERE.
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Variants of Unknown Significance

  • Mai Tran
  • June 3, 2020
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Wild Animals

  • Ren Weber
  • May 27, 2020
I searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker

  • Tahirah Alexander Green
  • May 19, 2020
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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