Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Two Books for the Frozen Sea: A Conversation with Megan Stielstra Laura Joyce-HubbardOctober 25, 2021 Megan Stielstra discusses her recently rereleased books EVERYONE REMAIN CALM and ONCE I WAS COOL.Read
Read Rumpus Original All the Tired Horses Sara Gelston SomersOctober 14, 2021 There is a cloudy line between noise and sound, routine and ritual.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Wow, Mom!: Mom Genes by Abigail Tucker Elizabeth BarberOctober 13, 2021 The best books I have read about motherhood have not reassured me that these feelings will resolve.Read
Read Rumpus Original Tongue Stuck Irina DumitrescuOctober 12, 2021 It was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Creating a Fractured Whole: Megan Culhane Galbraith’s The Guild of the Infant Saviour Chin-Sun LeeOctober 6, 2021 To have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Birth Stories: Kendra DeColo’s I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World Lynne FeeleyOctober 1, 2021 The speaker is both ruthlessly in her body and simultaneously elsewhere.Read
Read Rumpus Original Lamentation for Songbirds Lindsey Trout HughesSeptember 30, 2021 If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Fiction: A Disappointment Cate FrickeSeptember 29, 2021 My miraculous children were mine, and mine alone.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original A Small Universe Set in Motion: Talking with Amanda Moore Molly SpencerSeptember 29, 2021 Amanda Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, REQUEENING.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews The Art of Bearing Witness: Sanctuary by Emily Rapp Black Amy ReardonSeptember 22, 2021 As the title suggests, Sanctuary creates a safe space for grief in all its forms.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight Tatiana Johnson-BoriaSeptember 17, 2021 In Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original The Idiosyncrasies of Aging: Talking with Ali Solomon Sarah GarfinkelSeptember 17, 2021 Ali Solomon discusses her new book, I AM WHY DO I NEED VENMO? YEARS OLD.Read