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Dmitry Samarov
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Rumpus Original Fiction: When Will You Arrive?
We do not have lovers, if so there would not be need to reply or congregate to these stupid events, because the language of two people together is the exclusionary body of themselves. In the absence of a body, we settle for Snapchat . . .
What To Read When Warding Off Art Monsters
or: When great artists turn out to be great douchebags
So You Want to Feel Better: Navigating Grad School, Disability, and the Language of Pain
The term “invisible disability” is commonly used to describe disabilities that are not readily apparent to the eye, but I want to push back on this term. When you pay close attention, most disabilities become visible. Poems are not encoded messages that we’re meant to decipher, I frequently remind my students, they are language organized in ways that demand a different kind of attention. And so it is with invisible disabilities . . .
The Rumpus Interview with Dmitry Samarov
Dmitry's spontaneous cab drawings had such great composition and confidence. You could almost feel his grimace in so many of his lines.