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Read Allyson McCabe Music Rumpus Original Wanted/Needed/Loved: Allison Crutchfield’s Sewing Machine Allyson McCabe and Esme BlegvadFebruary 16, 2017 When I’m away touring, my clothes are my connection to home, my way of feeling myself.Read
Read Rumpus Original Womanly Arts D.M. MoehrleJanuary 17, 2017 This is the hearth. This is the knot. This is home. The woman bent over a sewing machine, the steady hum of the motor, the needle rising and sinking.Read
Read Rumpus Original The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Sweetest Kidnapping Cathy BellJanuary 3, 2016 [S]ometimes you don’t know you’re experiencing a fairytale until years later.Read
Read Rumpus Original Catalogue Broads Kelli KorduckiJanuary 27, 2015 Still, stories are subject to a gravity of their own, leaking out of the crevasses of a person's crafted exterior like coffee from the hairline crack of a ceramic mug.Read