Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Moments within Days within Seasons: Talking with Alicia Mountain Justin WymerJune 20, 2018 Alicia Mountain discusses her debut collection, High Ground Coward, the surveillance state, and queer representation in the poetry world. Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original The Life of the Mind: A Conversation with Elizabeth Scanlon Emma Winsor WoodJune 18, 2018 Elizabeth Scanlon discusses her debut full-length collection, Lonesome Gnosis, brains and trains, and poetry as prayer.Read
Read Book Club Blog Why We Chose Katie Ford’s If You Have to Go for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club The Rumpus Book ClubJune 15, 2018 A look at July's Poetry Book Club selection. Subscribe today!Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Blending Out: Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Jeannine Hall GaileyJune 15, 2018 Despite its title, Oceanic is much more than a love letter to the ocean.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Taking Control and Staking a Claim: Erin Adair-Hodges’s Let’s All Die Happy Lizzie HuttonJune 8, 2018 This is lovely writing, alive, thoroughly thought, and thoroughly felt.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original What Is Vibrant and Hidden: A Conversation with Jenny Boully S. FerdowsiMay 30, 2018 Jenny Boully discusses her new book, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life, construction of voice, occupying liminal spaces, and editing with sincerity.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Learning to Grow Where Planted: Maggie Smith’s Good Bones Julie Marie WadeMay 25, 2018 Part of looking closer is seeing what is hard to face, and part of having courage is addressing what seems futile.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-interview Project #137: Aimee Nezhukumatathil KB KinkelMay 24, 2018 "Admitting a love or joy, or yes, wonder for the natural world is, especially as a woman of color, one of the most vulnerable things we can do."Read
Read ENOUGH Politics Rumpus Original Sex ENOUGH: I’m Always Surprised When They Find Me The RumpusMay 22, 2018 A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.Read
Read Book Club Blog Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Justin Phillip Reed The Rumpus Book ClubMay 22, 2018 Justin Phillip Reed on his debut collection, Indecency, why he loves struggling with connotation, and the irresponsibility of American society.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews A Book with Wings: Bird Book by Sidney Wade Edward DerbyMay 18, 2018 There is an acceptance of the strangeness of things in these poems, even a generosity big enough to invite the oracle in for dinner.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #136: Shy Watson Jackson FronsMay 17, 2018 "I do think when I write it’s kind of therapy or having to tell someone everything or maybe writing it gets it out of my head?"Read