The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #180: De’Shawn Charles Winslow
“Everyone, to varying degrees, is in everyone’s business and life.”
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Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me
As long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
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How I Love Her: On Depression and Suicidal Ideation
Maybe the worst part about living with this is that it doesn’t leave me.
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Objectivity Is My Enemy: A Conversation with Dave Cullen
Dave Cullen discusses his new book, PARKLAND: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #170: Richard Blanco
“I guess you could say that engineering paved the road to poetry for me, pardon the pun.”
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Gutting the Sonnet: A Conversation with Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown discusses his third collection, THE TRADITION.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #165: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
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Good Enough: Foraging for Answers with Mary Oliver
Creation begets death which begets more creation.
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Ablutions: A Triptych
I am twenty the first time I turn the water red.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Man from Washington
They had, together, built something that, while not without its faults, was strong.
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It’s A Boy!
I was supposed to be a girl, they said. But the Lord works in mysterious ways, doesn’t He?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Lifers
We were beginning to exist on the periphery of our own lives.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: An Other Man
This is a carousel that never slows to a point where you can board gracefully.
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The Queer Syllabus: Velvet Goldmine by Todd Haynes
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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Mixed Feelings: Two Roads Diverged at a Picket Fence
Here we are standing the woods. Which path should we take?
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The Queer Syllabus: “Fragments, on Love and Desire” by Sappho
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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The Queer Syllabus: Threshold by Joseph O. Legaspi
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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A Two-Hour Dance Class in Thirty Minutes
When she called out for floor performance I knew this would not be my day.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #146: Andrew Solomon
“I can tell my story with precautions; others strip away my armor and expose a beating heart.”
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Country, Black Ass, Queer Perspective: Talking with Michael Arceneaux
Michael Arceneaux discusses his new memoir, I CAN’T DATE JESUS.
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Pulling the Thread Through: Talking with Tina Alexis Allen
Tina Alexis Allen discusses her memoir, HIDING OUT.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: D. Gilson
Place is context in part, but it is not context in summation.
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What to Read When You’re Queer and of Color during Pride
Books by queer poets of color included in the Nepantla anthology!
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Moments within Days within Seasons: Talking with Alicia Mountain
Alicia Mountain discusses her debut collection, High Ground Coward, the surveillance state, and queer representation in the poetry world.
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A Part of Me
Now my not wanting men to be front and center in my life capitalized sperm into a rare commodity. Empowered reproduction is largely a myth.
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The Real People: A Conversation with Rebecca Makkai
Rebecca Makkai discusses her forthcoming third novel, The Great Believers, how she arrived at the book’s structure, and the story and its characters.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #135: Patrick Nathan
“I wanted to make these characters much more complex than the individual boxes we normally see.”
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Taking Back Control: A Conversation with Joseph Osmundson
Joseph Osmundson discusses his memoir, Inside/Out, intimacy, trauma, and the sometimes violence of desire.
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Renovating Reality: A Remembrance of J. D. McClatchy
To us he was Professor McClatchy, and he presided over our Wednesday afternoon sessions with the grace of an elegant, erudite gentleman.
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Moments of Truth and Beauty: A Conversation with David Rocklin
David Rocklin discusses The Night Language, the larger landscape of appropriation and empathy, immigration and power structures, and intimacy and representation.
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