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The Legality of Love

  • Sarah Kersey
  • July 12, 2021
I remember when I learned there is a syntax to love.
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Depths of Story: Who’s Your Daddy by Arisa White

  • Keisha Bush
  • April 23, 2021
The inherited wounds cut so deep one wonders if they can ever be fully healed.
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Revisiting and Reinventing the Body: A Conversation with Destiny O. Birdsong

  • Sarah Kersey
  • November 18, 2020
Destiny O. Birdsong discusses her debut poetry collection, NEGOTIATIONS.
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Black Kids in Space: Afrofuturism and Mainstream Comedy

  • Jada F. Smith
  • November 4, 2020
We have to lead with our imagination, not with preconceived limitations.
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Racism Is a Reboot: Binging Battlestar Galactica at the End of a World

  • Franny Choi
  • October 13, 2020
It was a new world; it was the same world.
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From the Editors: Election 2020

  • The Rumpus
  • October 6, 2020
Rumpus editors share their thoughts, fears, and concerns around the impending election.
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The World Is on Fire: Living Weapon by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

  • Andre Bagoo
  • October 2, 2020
A democratic art, the poet says, will take us through. Come November, vote.
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Reclaiming History from the Bigots: Jill Lepore’s This America

  • Robert Rosenberger
  • September 23, 2020
History itself is not so conveniently tidy, and neither is this book.
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A Poetic Smorgasbord: A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

  • Cody Lee
  • August 12, 2020
Each sentence is calculated; each word explodes.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #226: Benjamin Nugent

  • Maria Anderson
  • July 16, 2020
“I’m interested in beautiful events that are wrong.”
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Heather McHugh

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • June 23, 2020
Heather McHugh discusses her new poetry collection, MUDDY MATTERHORN.
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Arrest Record

  • Desiree Cooper
  • June 22, 2020
A Black boy, no matter how young, was not a child. He was a future criminal.
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