Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #214: Sarah Kersey Lenny DellaRoccaApril 23, 2020 “A poem cannot exist without form or structure, just like the human body can’t operate without a skeleton.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky Grace TalusanApril 16, 2020 “I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #212: Mark Bibbins Evangeline Riddiford GrahamApril 2, 2020 “I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #211: Rachel Vorona Cote Ilana MasadMarch 19, 2020 “Ultimately, this is who I am. I can only write honestly, and from where I live.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview #210: Melissa Ragsly Anna Vangala JonesMarch 12, 2020 “I am the salt; the stories are the food.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #209: Lisa Olstein Elizabeth McCrackenMarch 5, 2020 “I don’t think I know how to write if I’m not guided by sound—that’s when it feels like I’m flailing or straining.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #208: Stephen Van Dyck Allie RowbottomFebruary 20, 2020 “This reality is so much dustier, smellier, and bitterer than it seems through a screen.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #207: Andrew Weatherhead J. A. TylerFebruary 13, 2020 “I want my art to be symbiotic with my life, not separate from it.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #206: Tina May Hall Anne ValenteFebruary 6, 2020 “[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #205: Beth Alvarado Irene CooperJanuary 30, 2020 “For me, when I write nonfiction, my mind moves from the outside to the inside.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #204: Paulina Flores Haley SherifJanuary 16, 2020 “Working with words is a quest, not blind, but in the darkness.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #202: Michelle Steinbeck Nina MoogDecember 19, 2019 “I wanted every reader to see her or his own story.”Read