On Resilience, Tender Rituals, and Responsible Love: Talking with Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon discusses the revised HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA.
...moreKiese Laymon discusses the revised HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA.
...moreTrauma’s wing conceals and reveals.
...moreLiteracy, you know firsthand, is a tool, is a motivator, is the beat of education.
...moreThere are no line breaks here because there are no breaks here.
...moreGreenwell tells his story on the narrator’s terms, and that makes all the difference.
...moreIt feels like a luxury to have just enough.
...moreI tell Kurinda I’d lie flat on the floor under a pile of jackets.
...moreDebut author Allie Rowbottom interviews her mentor, Maggie Nelson.
...moreNina Revoyr discusses her new novel, A STUDENT OF HISTORY.
...moreTom McAllister discusses his new novel, How to Be Safe, workshops, Twitter, dystopia, and narrative voice.
...moreDickson Lam discusses his debut memoir, Paper Sons, the writing advice that transformed his approach to thee book, and the duty of a memoirist.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreThe poem is no longer a part of the book I own. I ripped it out, had it framed, and nailed it to the wall right next to the door in our master bedroom.
...moreCan a person with some agency ever claim victimization, or are agency and victimhood a binary?
...moreMy voice begins to crack so I clear my throat. I look at each one of the girls one by one. The heat in me rises. My skin feels like the Texas pavement in July.
...moreI’m still working on this balance, and given that I only have about eighty or ninety years tops to get it right, I doubt I ever will.
...moreThey say justice is blind, and a lady, but it is neither. Justice is a wheel.
...moreKatia D. Ulysse discusses her forthcoming novel, Mouths Don’t Speak, the importance of religion and music in the novel and in Haitian culture, and why Haiti will always be “home.”
...moreWe’ve gathered up our favorite gifting ideas this holiday season and put them together into one handy list!
...moreClare Beams on We Show What We Have Learned and the “living strangeness” of short fiction.
...moreWhen you pick up a pen instead of a rifle, you’re fighting an entirely different battle. This is my duty. This is my patriotism.
...moreA hurricane is coming. Rita is in the Gulf of Mexico and is approaching Houston at a slow but steady pace of nine miles an hour. I don’t have many, or any, illusions that God and Jesus will see us through.
...moreDinner party! Now that the garden is starting to look nice, and the cats are becoming less feral and more civilized, and Klopnik has begun to change (occasionally) out of his gardening clothes, the Storming Bohemian’s thoughts turn to socializing on the patio. Klopnik, who insists that he is a hermit, and, like Huck Finn, […]
...moreThere isn’t even a discussion. There aren’t any words. You just start swinging—the building is a fence, your cousins are a fence. The two of you are surrounded. There’s no escape for either of you.
...moreAt California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, adjunct faculty have been trying for two years to win their first union contract. They are part of the Service Employees International Union’s Faculty Forward movement, through which some 13,000 adjuncts at fifty colleges across the nation have unionized in the last three years. In […]
...moreAfter what seems like a lifetime of bracing and bottling, I’ve gotten closer to settling my fourth-grade trauma.
...moreThe day the manuscript became Driving without a License was the day I said “yes” to the truth of my own life and coming-of-age experience as an undocumented immigrant.
...moreJust in time for back-to-school season, Ploughshares has this list of some of the most memorable teachers in literature.
...moreIn most communities, teachers are compensated so poorly and afforded so little respect that in many cases the primary compensation is martyrdom.
...moreAll for a novel? Eighth grade school teacher Patrick McLaw was placed on leave by the Dorchester County Board of Education and is currently being investigated by the County’s Sheriff, James Phillips, who explained—somewhat cryptically—that McLaw is at a “location known to law enforcement . . . [without] the ability to travel anywhere.” So far, […]
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