Living Memory Keepers: Talking with Alicia Elliott
Alicia Elliott discusses her essay collection, A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND.
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Posts Tagged: trauma
A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay
Salt—the speaker’s only remains, after she dives into the ocean and sets herself free of the past.
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Varied States of Breaking
This, I learned, is what rawness tasted like. I wanted more.
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Trauma as Inheritance: Adam P. Frankel’s The Survivors
The survivor is left to ponder whom he has become.
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Masters of Movement: A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Thea Matthews
Thea Matthews discusses her debut poetry collection, UNEARTH [THE FLOWERS].
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lauren J. Sharkey
Lauren J. Sharkey discusses her debut novel, INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER.
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Mothers and Daughters: Girl by Veronica Golos
Bodies become something to escape from or leave behind.
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Disrupting Language Hierarchies: Talking with Judith Santopietro
Judith Santopietro discusses TIAWANAKU. POEMAS DE LA MADRE COQA/POEMS FROM THE MOTHER COQA.
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Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned
In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
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Too Earnest for Twitter: A Conversation with Cameron Esposito
Cameron Esposito discusses her new memoir, SAVE YOURSELF.
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My Father’s Guide to Field Dressing an Elk
Around here, we don’t waste meat, and we don’t waste life.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan
“Memoir is about recreating the complexities of a life.”
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Peering in at Life: A Conversation with Mary South
Mary South discusses her debut story collection, YOU WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.
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Losing the World
When we begin life, language is play.
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The Lonesome Home: A Conversation with Aria Aber
Aria Aber discusses her debut poetry collection, HARD DAMAGE.
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Paranoid Reality: Monica Sok’s A Nail the Evening Hangs On
A loss is a loss. Neither the circle nor the form can be completed.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Beautiful Dead”
It was personal, as the detectives on my favorite shows always said.
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Variants of Unknown Significance
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
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ENOUGH: The Telling of It
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Losing Paradise
What my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.
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This Huge, Colossal Joy: A Conversation with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison
Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison discuss their work.
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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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Pursuing the Unattainable: A Conversation with Zaina Arafat
Zaina Arafat discusses her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH.
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Love and Loss in the Time of Pandemics: Talking with Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project #216: Corinne Manning
“I’ve never had a book happen to me the way WE HAD NO RULES did.”
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Poetry as Archeology: Talking with Roy G. Guzmán
Roy G. Guzmán discusses their debut collection, CATRACHOS.
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Learning to Listen: A Conversation with Natalia Hero
Natalia Hero discusses her debut novella, HUM.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #214: Sarah Kersey
“A poem cannot exist without form or structure, just like the human body can’t operate without a skeleton.”
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