Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour
To be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
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Posts Tagged: Massachusetts
Working from Memories of Memories: A Conversation with Lauren Hough
Lauren Hough discusses her debut essay collection, LEAVING ISN’T THE HARDEST THING.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #226: Benjamin Nugent
“I’m interested in beautiful events that are wrong.”
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Who Has the Most to Lose?: A Conversation with Julian K. Jarboe
Julian K. Jarboe discusses EVERYONE ON THE MOON IS ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week in Indie Boosktores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Both Nostalgia and Dream: Talking with Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis discusses her debut collection, MOUTHGUARD.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The World of the Book: Talking with Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken discusses her new novel, BOWLAWAY.
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TORCH: Twitch
America: land where anything can and does happen. Doors blow open by magic when you step on a rubber mat.
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Spotlight: “Perfect Sisters” by Joyanna M and Lily Bell
“Sister Love” touches on how a traditional family can fail the victim of domestic violence, and how that failure can compound the victim’s trauma.
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Call and Response: A Conversation with Hannah Tinti
Hannah Tinti discusses how The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley came into being, the formation of its characters, and how twelve scars and the celestial heavens help give this book structure and heft.
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You’re in the Hands of a Pro: The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot by Jack Driscoll
The characters in this collection frequently daydream about time. Children and teens want to speed it up so life can start. Grown-ups ask time to slow, or rewind to get some of it back.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: I Died of Dysentery
The glorious ways we fifth graders died in Mr. Mosher’s computer class. We strove to die in the most imaginable permutations possible.
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FUNNY WOMEN #148: The Hindenburg Review Writers’ Workshop
Welcome to the Hindenburg Review Writers’ Workshop!
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On Suffering and Sympathy
What is the distance between sympathy and action? How do we travel from one to the other?
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Albums of Our Lives: The Front Bottoms’ The Front Bottoms
When I first heard Brian Sella’s sweet, pathetic voice sing these words, they seared a sense of guilt into me.
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The Healing Magic of Baseball
In that favorite summer of my memory, Mom is perched on the edge of the rickety folding chair in box seats that the team manager reserved for us.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Instructions for Replicating a Bad Summer
Compare yourself to a raw wound. Explain that everyone else is one too, whether they know it or not.
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Reading Mademoiselle Gantrel
We squinted into the smoky room and saw ourselves on junior year abroad, frolicking on the Left Bank with artists in berets like hers.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kaitlyn Greenidge
Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, siblinghood and sisterhood, and finding a group to call “my people” in the larger literary world.
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: January Gill O’Neil
In Episode 12 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, January Gill O’Neil chats about her new collection, Misery Islands, writing pop culture into poetry, and the Red Sox.
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The Rumpus Interview with Elisa Ambrogio and Naomi Yang
Renaissance women Elisa Ambrogio and Naomi Yang discuss stop motion music videos, the female mythology of rock-n-roll, and giving ourselves permission to be creative, make music, and explore art in an intuitive way.
...moreOfficial Bards for the Bay State
All but six US states have official Poet Laureates; the Massachusetts House of Representatives is poised to cut that number down to five. Although many individual cities appoint poets to these literary ambassador positions, the larger Commonwealth has never passed a bill delineating a process for choosing a statewide laureate. As the Boston Globe reports, […]
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My Nixon Years
For me, although the decade would also give us disco and Norman Lear sitcoms and my absolute favorite bell-bottomed striped green pantsuit, the 70s were all about Nixon…
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Standard of Care
He has no short-term memory and will probably never walk again on his own. He was twenty-five when he was incarcerated for larceny over $250 in 2005. His name is Paul.
...moreMemorializing the Card Catalog
Sometimes it’s hard for a librarian to admit that we’ve arrived at the age of the virtual card catalog system. It’s a sentiment that’s especially true for Greenfield Community College librarian Hope Schneider who spent fourteen years sending out retired catalog cards to their respective authors asking for a signature or a short tribute. Some […]
...moreThe Sports Talk Radio Election
Okay, so lots of confusion and grief and gnashing of teeth out there over why my adopted state, Massachusetts, just elected a Republican nudie model to fill the seat once held by Ted Kennedy. I’m gonna try to explain, but I warn you upfront that my explanation isn’t going to make you feel any better, […]
...more“Accident, Mass. Ave.” by Jill McDonough
I grew up on Mass Ave. in John Leary House, a low-income apartment building for former homeless families run by The Catholic Worker. I remember the street as dirty, exciting and loud… this was the 1980s, before the Boston neighborhood would become the gentrified district it is today. So when I read Jill McDonough‘s poem […]
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