ENOUGH: Thawing a Dream
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreI am sick with grief, triggered by my mother’s death, in turn triggered by Chardonnay.
...moreCynthia Dewi Oka discusses her new collection, FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY.
...more“I always try to locate stories deep inside myself, physically and emotionally.”
...moreI feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.
...moreThe mother, too, is a monument. I am haunted by mine.
...moreTo 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.
...moreJenny Qi discusses her debut poetry collection, FOCAL POINT.
...moreLeonora Simonovis discusses her debut collection, STUDY OF THE RAFT.
...moreI took a deep breath. A long one. And I started rocking again.
...morePoems echo, rebound, and speak to one another.
...moreAmid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.
...moreFinding joy in the now, even as death and difficulty mark the days, is possible, a choice, and a practice.
...moreA fossil. A body. A message from a recovered life.
...moreAmanda Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, REQUEENING.
...moreAs the title suggests, Sanctuary creates a safe space for grief in all its forms.
...moreLike Fine’s uniquely constructed book, being a mom is to be permanently fractured.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreZauner’s memoir is not a performance, but an act of love, including all the dirty little bits that come with it.
...moreIn this lush and raw account, musicians play, voices harmonize and then separate again, town after Alaska town rolls by… and Waterfield searches for home.
...moreThe voice reaches and reaches at answers to broad questions. Sometimes it pulls back pieces of insight and beauty.
...moreAnna Qu discusses her debut memoir, MADE IN CHINA.
...moreElizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
...moreIn this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.
...morePik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, GHOST FOREST.
...moreChoose, the specter points in opposite directions.
...moreJoy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
...moreI remember when I learned there is a syntax to love.
...moreKendra Allen discusses her debut poetry collection, THE COLLECTION PLATE.
...moreAshley C. Ford discusses her debut memoir, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
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