Read Essays Rumpus Original From the Archive: The Dark All Around Us Ryan McDonaldFebruary 24, 2022 There is still light in the dark. This is the paradox that Little Bear has to accept in order to fall asleep.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction—The Christmas Party Mina SeçkinJanuary 10, 2022 I laugh. My laugh, this thing that sounds better on somebody else.Read
Read Essays Rumpus Original Joe at the Aquarium Ariél M. MartinezDecember 16, 2021 I pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Fiction: My Mother Fires Guns Timothy Laurence MarshDecember 15, 2021 You are never really at peace with what you haven’t gotten.Read
Read Essays Rumpus Original Turning the Lights On Tyler Anne WhichardDecember 8, 2021 I feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.Read
Read Essays Rumpus Original Wash Karine HackNovember 16, 2021 I hate the word clean. It’s antiseptic, scrubbed raw; it makes me think of sin and guilt and a God I don’t believe in.Read
Read Rumpus Original Voices on Addiction Voices on Addiction: Vessel Hillary LeftwichNovember 15, 2021 We both can disappear in our own ways, can't we?Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Smoke Signals to the Dead: A Conversation with Jenny Qi Tria WenNovember 10, 2021 Jenny Qi discusses her debut poetry collection, FOCAL POINT.Read
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 Essays Rumpus Original Searching for Sleeper Trains Stefani CoxNovember 4, 2021 There aren’t enough trains in Los Angeles. Not enough for me to sleep.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Christine No Jennifer LewisNovember 4, 2021 “Balance is its own beautiful practice.”Read
Read Rumpus Original Before Danielle Cadena Deulen and Shara LessleyOctober 28, 2021 The mind, you see, wants better weather. The mind wants to believe what suits it best.Read