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From the Archive: The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

I want to leave the party through the window and find my uncle standing on a piece of iron shaped into visible desperation, which must also be (how can it not?) the beginning of visible hope.

The Rumpus Talks with Michael Pedersen About the Beauty of Male Friendship

An acclaimed Scottish writer and performer, Michael Pedersen is the author of two poetry collections, Play with Me and Oyster, and most recently a memoir titled Boy Friends, which celebrates…

Sketch book Reviews: Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

An illustrated review of TIME IS A MOTHER by Ocean Vuong.

What to Read When 2022 Is Just Around the Corner

Books releasing in the first half of 2022 that we can’t wait to read!

Meditations on Green, Grief, and Girlhood: Talking with Susan Nguyen

Susan Nguyen discusses her debut poetry collection, DEAR DIASPORA.

We Are More: Shattering the Ethnic Monolith Myth in The Gimmicks

To say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.

What to Read When You Want to Read about Sin

Grant Faulkner shares a reading list to celebrate ALL THE COMFORT SIN CAN PROVIDE.

Rumpus Original

Omayra (In Other Words)

I wonder, then, what it is to die. Perhaps to die is a matter of location.

Notable Online

Notable Online: 6/20–6/26

Literary events taking place virtually this week!

Notable Online

Notable Online: 5/30–6/5

Literary events taking place virtually this week!

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with torrin greathouse

torrin a. greathouse discusses her debut collection, WOUND FROM THE MOUTH OF A WOUND.

Setting Yourself Free: A Conversation with Alisson Wood

Alisson Wood discusses her debut memoir, BEING LOLITA.

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