Wanted/Needed/Loved: Shana Cleveland’s Grandma’s Hats
It’s such a powerful symbol of who she was.
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Slippery and Dark and Brilliant: A Conversation with Morgan Parker
Morgan Parker discusses her newest collection, MAGICAL NEGRO.
The Colonizer
It felt like one of those soundtracks where the needle scrapes across the record, and silence prevails.
From the Editors: On Charlottesville and White Supremacy
Rumpus editors share their thoughts on Charlottesville and white supremacy. When we have a platform to speak out against hatred and bigotry, we must use it to do so.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 15): “Southern History”
We can’t hide from our history and we can’t pass it on to future generations.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 11): “Skinhead”
Using dramatic monologue, Smith unmasks the skinhead’s anger to fend off threats to his way of life.
Swinging Modern Sounds #78: Conceived as a Playlist
Shadowbahn [...] is among the most unusual, and most extreme, in a literary career that has often been marked by its unpredictability.
Crybaby College Students and Their Bogus Trophies
I’m a small blue dot living in a blood-red corner of a red state, so I’ve grown accustomed to hearing right wing talking points. I don’t like them, but they…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 6): “To Elsie”
Now the battle is joined. I will prosecute my part of it as a writer till the last dog dies...
Touring Trump’s America on Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award on Wednesday night. In his acceptance speech he told us, “We’re happy in here; outside is the blasted hellhole wasteland…
United We Stand
No one knows exactly what the next four years will bring. But we are always stronger when we protest together.
The Rumpus Review of Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation
Parker set out to bring a different kind of “slavery movie” to audiences. And it is different.