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Rumpus Exclusive: “Call It Courage”

  • Colin Hamilton
  • November 4, 2019
She was living in little shack balanced among the branches of a tree.
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Chimeras

  • Elanor Broker
  • October 14, 2019
There’s never a clean origin story for the shadow.
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A Kind of Cartography: Talking with Elizabeth Geoghegan

  • Jahan Khajavi
  • October 4, 2019
Elizabeth Geoghegan discusses her debut story collection, EIGHTBALL.
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Trudging Down Death Road

  • Tega Oghenechovwen
  • July 15, 2019
Reveal yourself. Reveal yourself. You cannot be dead. Reveal yourself.
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How to Name Dead Babies

  • Susanna Childress
  • June 17, 2019
Let’s not pretend first means there’s a good place to start.
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Allowing Space: A Conversation with Chia-Chia Lin

  • Ruth LeFaive
  • May 8, 2019
Chia-Chia Lin discusses her debut novel, THE UNPASSING.
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Portals

  • Elizabeth Bevilacqua
  • May 2, 2019
Portals, as my aunt calls them, are like rings of time orbiting one another.
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The Mentor Series: Maggie Smith and Kathy Fagan

  • Maggie Smith
  • April 22, 2019
Poet Maggie Smith interviews her mentor, Kathy Fagan.
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What Is Found There: Talking with Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox

  • Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox
  • March 1, 2019
Poets Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox discuss their writing.
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Spotlight: “As Before, So Behind (redux)”

  • Ted Closson
  • February 26, 2019
What follows is an attempt to speak to the living, as well as the dead.
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Letters in the Early Light of Morning

  • Ira Sukrungruang
  • February 19, 2019
Maybe you have come to save us. From what? From ourselves.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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The Thread: Fatherless

  • Marissa Korbel
  • January 15, 2019
I create myself, raise myself. I am mine.
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