On Unsteady Ground: the earthquake room by Davey Davis
[T]his is a book about the ways in which even our most intimate relationships can slip beyond our control, fracturing along barely perceptible fault lines.
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Posts Tagged: queerness
The Rumpus Interview with Dawn Lundy Martin
Dawn Lundy Martin discusses her most recent collection, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, the intersections between poetry and social justice, her wide variety of inspirations, and bathroom gender binaries.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Brian Kornell
The more secrets I wrote about, the fewer I wanted to keep. And the more secrets I made public through my writing, the more I gained.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jennifer Baker
The more variation we see in life, the more it becomes less about seeing one type of book by marginalized people.
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Little Minnie at the Movies
Being a teenager sucks. It’s not pretty or nice or sweet or kind.
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The Rumpus Interview with Maureen Seaton
Maureen Seaton sits down to discuss queering poetry, collaborating on collections, vacillating between literary genres, and why Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic” is at the top of her credos.
...more“The Pleasure and the Purpose of Writing”
All class is a privilege, even the lowliest have a vernacular that is all their own that they use to keep people in and keep people out. I like to use a lot of vernaculars next to each other in awkward ways because we all deal with the filters of the larger culture which is […]
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