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At the Museum

  • Garnett Kilberg Cohen
  • February 11, 2015
I have seldom visited a museum when I didn’t return home with a feeling I had not had when I departed.
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FUNNY WOMEN #125: My Almost Valentine

  • Caren Lissner
  • February 3, 2015
Also, when I said I don’t like Mexican food, I only meant that I dislike the way it tastes in my mouth and the way I feel after consuming it.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Chloe Caldwell

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • February 1, 2015
Chloe Caldwell talks about her new novella Women, gender nectar, break-up grief, and her impatience with analyzing the fiction/nonfiction divide.
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Waved Albatross

  • Anita Felicelli
  • January 28, 2015
How do we make the good thoughts stay? Can we make them stay? It's so hard to keep in mind the slivers of time that change our lives for the better.
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Fat and Sexy

  • Guia Cortassa
  • January 27, 2015
My curves are not in all the right places but they still bring men to their knees. This, despite the fact that I have been told that because I am…
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Songs of Our Lives: Look Blue Go Purple’s “Circumspect Penelope”

  • Joshua Harmon
  • January 23, 2015
Distance always seduced me—distance from whatever was most familiar, especially myself—but the difficulties in achieving such remove vexed me.
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Paper Birds

  • Liz Asch
  • December 31, 2014
Clearing those pages plain, I'd make time fall away and distance shorten impossibly, fold upon fold, until the page was no longer a record of our histories but an origami swan.
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Rules

  • Bryan Washington
  • December 17, 2014
A part of me is always in that car. Going nowhere, but going.
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Lines Like Loss, Like Leaving

  • Jill Talbot and Justin Lawrence Daughtery
  • December 9, 2014
I know you understand me when I tell you this. I know you understand dead of night. Tell me what lines you’ve read so I know how to imagine you. Tell me who is gone. Tell me if you, like me, always think of going.
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I Thought I Could Just Be a Passenger

  • Rachel Vorona Cote
  • November 5, 2014
I have spent my twenties texturing this city with memory; I have made it a vessel for my pleasures and my pain.
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The Book of Love

  • Guia Cortassa
  • October 30, 2014
“For a certain sort of person, sharing a book can be as intimate and exhilarating as sharing a kiss,” writes Helen Rosner in her moving essay about books, love and…
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Love and Hate

  • Roxie Pell
  • September 23, 2014
Sometimes we can’t help but blame the people we need for making us need them. In an essay for the New York Times’s Modern Love column, Rumpus contributor Anna March writes about…
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