Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Sarah Ghazal Ali, Erin L. McCoy, and Tawanda Mulalu.
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Posts Tagged: Safia Elhillo
Notable Online: 4/18–4/24
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 4/11–4/17
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Women’s History Month.
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What to Read When 2021 Is Just Around the Corner
Books releasing in the first half of 2021 that we can’t wait to read!
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Notable San Francisco: 10/9–10/15
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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The Mania of Queer Desire: In Praise of Fever Ray’s Plunge
I remember driving a bird mad once.
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Talking Haram Auntie Poetics: A Conversation with Fatimah Asghar
Fatimah Asghar discusses the new anthology she co-edited, HALAL IF YOU HEAR ME.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
Rumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month!
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Notable Chicago: 4/12–4/18
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable Chicago: 4/5–4/11
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2019
A selection of AWP 2019 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Notable NYC: 1/26–2/1
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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The Rumpus Top 20 of 2018
We share our twenty most-read pieces of 2018!
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What to Read When 2019 Is Just Around the Corner
A list of books releasing in the first half of 2019 that we can’t wait to read!
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Notable Twin Cities: 12/2–12/8
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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The Rumpus’s Best of the Net 2018 nominees
We share our Best of the Net 2018 nominees!
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Notable Chicago: 8/10–8/16
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable NYC: 8/4–8/10
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Safia Elhillo
with my teeth i understand my lover’s waist / we worship at each other’s throats / i am not afraid of men only of forgiving
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2018
A selection of AWP 2018 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Both Presence and Absence: Safia Elhillo’s The January Children
The book, in the end, is shot through with a faith in human communion despite immense communal and individual loss.
...moreNotable NYC: 10/28–11/3
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 5/27–6/2
Saturday 5/27: Hossannah Asuncion and Che Gossett join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Tuesday 5/30: Samantha Irby presents her new essay collection We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (our May Book Club selection). Housing Works, 7 p.m., $20.
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The Conversation: Angel Nafis, Safia Elhillo, and Elizabeth Acevedo
I don’t think it ever fully sunk in for me that I even live in America.
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Dear Reader, For the past year, we, Aziza Barnes and Nabila Lovelace, The Founders of The Conversation, debated how we could create space for folk we love, whose work is critical, in the South. We had been living in New York, which is regarded as something of a safe haven for the Black writer. In the heat of […]
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