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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Kim Addonizio

  • Mackenzie Singh
  • April 22, 2021
“Poetry is a mode of thinking through things that I can’t really articulate.”
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R.I.P.: Labor In, Labor Out

  • Lee Matalone
  • May 2, 2018
Being reminded of your mortality on a constant basis makes your life so much better.
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The Tension of Identity: Hands That Break and Scar by Sarah A. Chavez

  • Kristi Carter
  • March 23, 2018
For Sarah A. Chavez, the body works as a site of difference and violence, but also magic and wisdom.
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Visitations: Gwendolyn Brooks at One Hundred

  • Julie R. Enszer
  • September 12, 2017
A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Claudia Cortese Discusses Wasp Queen

  • Melissa Adamo
  • April 21, 2017
Poet Claudia Cortese talks about her new book Wasp Queen and Lucy, the rebellious 90s teen whose voice inspired the collection.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • April 14, 2017
This week, the art and literature magazine Paper Darts has a short story about the expectations and invasions of walking through the world in a female body. Not the obvious,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Naomi Jackson

  • Alli Maloney
  • February 6, 2017
Naomi Jackson discusses her debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill, how she approached writing about mental illness and its affects on a family, and choosing to to tell a story from multiple perspectives.
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The Body and the Blood

  • Sarah Aziza
  • December 13, 2016
The world around me looked suddenly sharper, more sinister, the female body where I lived appearing so much more penetrable, exposed, and impossible to hide.
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Little Minnie at the Movies

  • Melissa Carroll
  • September 12, 2015
Being a teenager sucks. It’s not pretty or nice or sweet or kind.
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That Sick Feeling

  • Shannon Elderon
  • October 21, 2010
Janice Shapiro’s characters see that the game of womanhood has no winners—and some are frantic for an escape that they do not find.
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