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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Join NOW!The important thing to remember when climbing a pole, a rope, a mountain is to not look down.
...moreAre these stories true? Did my great grandfather really kill someone with a hay hook? Was my other great grandfather really a communist?
...moreIf this were the end, May needed to see.
...moreThis book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.
...moreI laugh. My laugh, this thing that sounds better on somebody else.
...moreThe experience, rather than linear, is borealian.
...moreHow does one come to feel American in the eyes of others?
...moreComposition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.
...moreTo 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.
...moreMaurice Carlos Ruffin discusses his new story collection, THE ONES WHO DON’T SAY THEY LOVE YOU.
...moreGene Kwak discusses his debut novel, GO HOME, RICKY!
...moreIt is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
...morePleasures and possibilities, though, come hard-won in this book.
...moreRajiv Mohabir discusses ANTIMAN and CUTLISH.
...moreAmid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.
...moreYou stood and put your hair up. It made you a different man. You got hard and decided you were why.
...moreNneka M. Okona discusses her new book, SELF-CARE FOR GRIEF.
...more“Speaking English so well” seemed to be the key to open many doors.
...moreJocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
...moreAll the while, the sound of the poetry behind the telling is sharp, rhythmic, and controlled.
...moreIn Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.
...moreAshley M. Jones discusses her new poetry collection, REPARATIONS NOW!.
...moreFrighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.
...moreTo say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.
...moreChoose, the specter points in opposite directions.
...moreAdam Thompson discusses his debut story collection, BORN INTO THIS.
...moreMusa Okwonga discusses IN THE END, IT WAS ALL ABOUT LOVE and ONE OF THEM.
...moreHe could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
...moreHer name was Ing Hua. Literal translation: Cherry Blossom.
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