Queen of That Universe
The realm of sound yields to me, sits at my feet. I can switch on. Or not.
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Posts Tagged: intergenerational trauma
When the Healing Place Exploded
Clothes, plants, and broken aluminum doors on balconies—all was inside out.
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Between Lightness and Shadow: A Conversation with Kapka Kassabova
Kapka Kassabova discusses her latest book, TO THE LAKE.
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A Poetic Smorgasbord: A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Each sentence is calculated; each word explodes.
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Living Memory Keepers: Talking with Alicia Elliott
Alicia Elliott discusses her essay collection, A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND.
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Varied States of Breaking
This, I learned, is what rawness tasted like. I wanted more.
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Trauma as Inheritance: Adam P. Frankel’s The Survivors
The survivor is left to ponder whom he has become.
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Masters of Movement: A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
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Dear Daughters
We left because they never gave us back our bodies.
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The Promise of Werfel’s Musa Dagh: Portraying Genocide in Fiction
How does a fictional account come to stand in for history?
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Body Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Resistance Against Erasure: Talking with Marianne Chan
Marianne Chan discusses her debut poetry collection, ALL HEATHENS.
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Constant Motion: Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
More than a longing for an origin story, Hernandez Castillo’s memoir is an attempt to bring the invisible to light.
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Paranoid Reality: Monica Sok’s A Nail the Evening Hangs On
A loss is a loss. Neither the circle nor the form can be completed.
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Flesh and Blood: A Conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko discusses her story collection, YOUR AD COULD GO HERE.
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That Little Bit of Magic: A Conversation with Ramiza Shamoun Koya
Ramiza Shamoun Koya discusses her debut novel, THE ROYAL ABDULS.
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Love and Loss in the Time of Pandemics: Talking with Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky
“I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”
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Tracing the Fractures: A Conversation with Kristen Millares Young
Kristen Millares Young discusses her debut novel, SUBDUCTION.
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Voices on Addiction: Katie Calls
I want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
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Living with Our Ghosts: A Conversation with Maisy Card
Maisy Card discusses her debut novel, THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY.
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Each Story Matters: Talking with Hadley Freeman
Hadley Freeman discusses her new memoir, HOUSE OF GLASS.
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Seaweed Soup (Miyuk Gook
미역국)
This is my mother’s soup. This is what I aim for.
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A Space for Magnanimity: Talking with E. J. Koh
E. J. Koh discusses her debut memoir, THE MAGICAL LANGUAGE OF OTHERS.
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Poetics of Lineage
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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Barbara Berman’s 2019 Holiday Poetry Shout-Out
Barbara Berman’s 2019 Poetry Shout-Out!
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Butcher Knives at the Ready
For many years, I tried to civilize myself.
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Voices on Addiction: Jokerman
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
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What Would a Woman of Color Do?
How do we transcend generations of trauma and let go of our burdensome past?
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