Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Poetry Is a Manifestation of a Life: Talking with Marvin Bell Emily SernakerMarch 23, 2018 Poet Marvin Bell discusses his now-famous love poem, "To Dorothy," and the woman who inspired it.Read
Read Rumpus Original The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tell Me Something Good DeMisty BellingerApril 16, 2017 I need to feel that I can be a woman and be black in this present cultural climate.Read
Read Politics Rumpus Original The Real Fidel Robert ArellanoJanuary 2, 2017 In a flash nearly 200,000 Cuban refugees understood that we’d lost our homeland and had better get used to life en la Yuma. We packed for six weeks, and we stayed for six decades.Read