What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Women’s History Month.
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Posts Tagged: Wayetu Moore
What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Black History Month!
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What to Read When 2021 Is Just Around the Corner
Books releasing in the first half of 2021 that we can’t wait to read!
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Notable Online: 6/14–6/20
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable NYC: 1/12–1/18
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2018!
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Notable NYC: 12/8–12/14
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 11/5–11/11
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 10/31–11/6
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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A Sense of God: She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore
Perhaps one of the most beautiful things Moore does is to give voice to those who would not or did not have a voice.
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Notable NYC: 9/15–9/21
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Twin Cities: 9/2–9/8
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
...moreSunday Rumpus Pushcart Prize Nominations
Pushcart Prize nominations were due December 1, and we got ours in just under the wire. From the many excellent pieces of writing that have passed through the Sunday Rumpus this year, we submitted four essays that we agreed were truly exceptional for consideration: The Right to Remain, by Alexis Paige love/woman/thirty, by Wayétu Moore Forgiving My Father, […]
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
For Days 11 and 12 of National Poetry Month, we have work from Aziza Barnes and Daniel Priest. Aziza Barnes’s innovative poem, “How To Purchase A Flight,” subverts the experience of purchasing an airline ticket to question her biracial cousin’s opportunism. Priest’s “Sestina After a Miscarriage” uses a traditional poetic form to offer a powerful rendering […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: love/Woman/thirty
They did not tell us that love was not something you could throw away once finished. That it would remain on us like blackened scars, underneath blouses and in those places only we could see.
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