Essays Rumpus Original From the Archive: Explicit Violence Lidia YuknavitchJune 28, 2022 Afterward, there was dead silence in the kitchen. I know because I held my breath. Even air molecules seemed to still.Read
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Read Features & Reviews Reviews The Trauma of Surviving: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho Sonja FlancherOctober 20, 2021 Amid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight Davon LoebJune 30, 2021 He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original What We Don’t Say: Talking with Ghinwa Jawhari Noor HindiJune 30, 2021 Ghinwa Jawhari discusses her debut poetry collection, BINT.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Hell Is a Young Man: Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent Sara KrolewskiApril 28, 2021 The brutality of frat culture, Nugent suggests, is a veneer that hardly masks its devotees’ miseries and insecurities.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original A Poet of Ecology: Talking with Kate Gaskin Randy BrownApril 28, 2021 Kate Gaskin discusses her debut collection, FOREVER WAR.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original What Am I Fighting For?: A Conversation with Deborah A. Miranda ire’ne lara silvaDecember 23, 2020 Deborah A. Miranda discusses her new collection of poetry, ALTAR FOR BROKEN THINGS.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Interrogating Language: Carlos Andrés Gómez’s Fractures Joumana AltallalDecember 11, 2020 Language enacts violence through manipulation.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Rosanna Warren Meg TylerOctober 22, 2020 “Any good poem has form and acts out its meanings in form.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Beloved Names and Incantatory Powers: heidi andrea restrepo rhodes’s The Inheritance of Haunting e. m. franceschiniOctober 16, 2020 And so it is an exorcism, yes, but also a song.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Marlin M. Jenkins Alexandria HerrOctober 1, 2020 “I really believe that if it matters to the writer, it can find space in the poem.”Read