ENOUGH: Clara, Too
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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Rooted to the Earth: The Carrying by Ada Limón
Women carry many loads. They carry with their bodies—physical labor they do on behalf of their homes, their jobs, and/or their families. Some things they carry only as mental or emotional weight, given...
View ArticleFragmenting Forward: Brute by Emily Skaja
I became fixated on elegies earlier this year after being left by a man I loved. Since I was already spending most of my time thinking about loss, elegy became the ideal poem—a lament for the dead and...
View ArticleNotable Philadelphia: 11/12–11/18
Tuesday 11/12: Blue Stoop will present Jaquira Díaz, author of Ordinary Girls, in conversation with Carmen Maria Machado. 6:30 p.m. at Penn Book Center. The Free Library will present readings by Saeed...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 12/4–12/10
Wednesday 12/4: Dave Eggers will be reading from The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment. Book Passage Ferry Building in San Francisco at 6 p.m. Michael Frank will be discussing his new novel, What...
View ArticleIntimate and Vast: Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
In her latest collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz brings us the body in the form of bodies so rarely sung by, so rarely seen by, our dominant culture—bodies...
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Disrupting Language Hierarchies: Talking with Judith Santopietro
In Bolivia, the coqa leaf is sacred to Indigenous communities and an important crop in its economy. So when Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, came into office in 2006, he resisted...
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for How to Love the World
We are thrilled to bring you this exclusive first look at the cover of How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews and forthcoming from Storey Publishing on April 13,...
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What Am I Fighting For?: A Conversation with Deborah A. Miranda
Deborah A. Miranda is the author of four collections of poetry, Indian Cartography (Greenfield Review Press, 1999), The Zen of La Llorona (Salt Publishing, 2005), Raised by Humans (Tia Chucha, 2015),...
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What to Read When You are Visited by Grief
If you are reading this, you are among the living. As we emerge from a year that so many others did not survive, what can we read to be with grief, the powerful and profound visitor of the living? When...
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