From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Today, You’re a Black Revolutionary
The important thing to remember when climbing a pole, a rope, a mountain is to not look down.
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Posts Tagged: Racism
Looking for Trouble: A Conversation with Maud Newton
Are these stories true? Did my great grandfather really kill someone with a hay hook? Was my other great grandfather really a communist?
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: On the Last Day, the Ancestors Came
If this were the end, May needed to see.
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Defying Gravity: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars
This book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction—The Christmas Party
I laugh. My laugh, this thing that sounds better on somebody else.
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How to Watch While Being Watched: Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s Borealis
The experience, rather than linear, is borealian.
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Becoming American in the Age of Trump
How does one come to feel American in the eyes of others?
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Our Recognizable, Difficult, Earthly Kingdom: Such Color by Tracy K. Smith
Composition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.
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Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour
To 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.
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Honoring Street-Level New Orleans: A Conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Maurice Carlos Ruffin discusses his new story collection, THE ONES WHO DON’T SAY THEY LOVE YOU.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Gene Kwak
Gene Kwak discusses his debut novel, GO HOME, RICKY!
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Reading Whitman While White
It is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
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How It Would Feel to Be Free: Olivia Laing’s Everybody
Pleasures and possibilities, though, come hard-won in this book.
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You Can’t Stop Rivers from Running: Talking with Rajiv Mohabir
Rajiv Mohabir discusses ANTIMAN and CUTLISH.
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The Trauma of Surviving: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
Amid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: On Sight
You stood and put your hair up. It made you a different man. You got hard and decided you were why.
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Reclaiming the Roots of Self-Care: A Conversation with Nneka M. Okona
Nneka M. Okona discusses her new book, SELF-CARE FOR GRIEF.
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Best Friends
“Speaking English so well” seemed to be the key to open many doors.
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Performing Violence: A Conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
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Of Language and Lineage: Carlina Duan’s Alien Miss
All the while, the sound of the poetry behind the telling is sharp, rhythmic, and controlled.
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A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight
In Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.
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The Plane That We Inhabit: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones
Ashley M. Jones discusses her new poetry collection, REPARATIONS NOW!.
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Lightning Rods and Line Breaks: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed
Frighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.
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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.
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Accidental Altars
Choose, the specter points in opposite directions.
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Experience What We Experience: A Conversation with Adam Thompson
Adam Thompson discusses his debut story collection, BORN INTO THIS.
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That Moment of Transition: Talking with Musa Okwonga
Musa Okwonga discusses IN THE END, IT WAS ALL ABOUT LOVE and ONE OF THEM.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight
He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
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Cherry Blossom Girl
Her name was Ing Hua. Literal translation: Cherry Blossom.
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