To Gleam at the Periphery: Talking with Kendra DeColo
Kendra DeColo discusses her new collection, I AM NOT TRYING TO HIDE MY HUNGERS FROM THE WORLD.
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Posts Tagged: Sarah Ruhl
What to Read When You are Visited by Grief
Annie Connole shares a reading list to celebrate THE SPRING.
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Notable Online: 9/6–9/12
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
Rumpus editors share share new and forthcoming collections we’re especially excited about!
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Notable NYC: 3/7–3/13
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/27–2/2
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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The Mentor Series: Lisa Locascio and Aimee Bender
Lisa Locascio interviews her mentor, Aimee Bender.
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Notable NYC: 10/6–10/12
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/15–9/21
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...more“Fruitful Bewilderment”
At The New Republic, Sarah Ruhl elicits thoughts and impromptu poems from poet Max Ritvo on spirituality, performance comedy, and “Fruitful Bewilderment.” On spirituality, Ritvo says, “The first time I heard Schubert’s Agnus Dei at a Mass, it made me feel like my forehead had never belonged anywhere, but suddenly knew that it was right where […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Max Ritvo
Max Ritvo passed away on August 23, 2016. Earlier this summer, he spoke with Sarah Blake about his debut collection Four Reincarnations, writing with and about cancer, and how language is a game.
...moreWriting Motherhood
…motherhood is an undiscovered country in the literary sense, one we must venture into lest our experience goes unrecorded, or recorded only by men. At the New York Times, Sarah Ruhl reviews Rivka Galchen’s new collection of essays, Little Labors, and imagines a rich and intimate solidarity, even friendship, between herself and Galchen as mothers. She […]
...moreA Few Favorites
Over at the New York Times Sunday Book Review, playwright and author Sarah Ruhl shares which works of literature have had an impact on her life, things that are written in water, and the wonderful feeling of not knowing what to read next: I’m always about to read “The Remembrance of Things Past.” Not reading […]
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