Originals "Curious" by Nina Shope:
"Curious, the townspeople call her, the girl with yellow eyes, yellow hair, jaundiced skin."
"Psychic Cartographies" by Elda María Román:
"As if going into hiding from the onset, my parents immigrated from Mexico to the United States, to a place barely visible on most maps." |
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Interviews & Reviews
Katherine Indermaur, the Sheffer stoke and the illusory self (an interview)
Leanne Ogasawara reviews Pico Iyer's The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
Henri Cole, bees as metaphor (an interview) |
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Rumpus MAY Book Club Picks |
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Every month subscribers receive a book in the mail handpicked by The Rumpus staff.Now through April 15, you can sign up for our May Poetry Book Club pick West: A Translation by Paisley Rekdal and/or our prose Book Club pick The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling.
As a subscriber, you'll also be invited to an exclusive online video discussion with the book's author + a Rumpus Editor. Subscribers are encouraged to join in the chat with their questions before and during the conversations. These will take place on the Rumpus' Crowdcast channel and will remain available to subscribers for 1 month after they take place. |
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The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling
From the award-winning author of Perma Red comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges prevailing historical narratives of Sacajewea.
"Gather Days at Three Forks"
Day of Moon turning to ash
We are camped by Three Rivers Come Together—out on the wide grasses far from Agai. I am nine winters aged. In my gut, Land tells me we are not wanted in this place of Earth mounds and distant Mountains, growl-thick with Moose stink, marshy suck holes, and sneaky boat-headed Badgers. |
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Letters in the Mail (from authors!) |
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| | | Letters in the Mail from authors is a Rumpus subscription in which you receive an actual, postmarked letter from one of our favorite writers in your IRL mailbox twice a month. All letters are non-promotional, include a creative prompt, and have a return mailing address in case you'd like to write the author back! Coming up for adults!
April 1: Henriette Lazaridis
April 15: Erica Berry
Coming up for Kids!
April 1: Sonja Thomas **Last regular Kids letter
*IMPORTANT UPDATE: after April 1, we will no longer be commissioning new Letters for Kids on a regular basis. This program has been wonderful for so many young readers, but the subscriber count and interest has been low for several years. This is also the magazine's only program that is not geared toward adults, so it's been a tough fit. We'll notify existing subscribers and cancel any recurring billing shortly. Thank you so much for the folks who have supported this program in the past and we hope you'll consider joining us as Letters for adult subscribers in the future. |
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A special thank you to this month's sponsor Poetry magazine! |
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We're trying something new with half or full month ad partners for the site and/or our weekly e-newsletter in the hopes of having a more solid way of supporting the work we do at The Rumpus. This also allows us to have more say in who we work with vs. automated ads feeding through our site.
If you're interested in sharing the work you do as a publisher, literary organization, author, or other member of the literary community, please reach out to Monica at ads@therumpus.net. We are currently looking for sponsorship partners for May and beyond!
*If you're a Rumpus Member, editor, or volunteer reader, email hello@therumpus.net your upcoming literary-related events or classes and we'll do our best to include them in an upcoming free weekly newsletter. We appreciate you supporting the work WE do and would like to pay it forward. |
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Reader Support Keeps The Rumpus Going! |
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| Founded in 2009 in San Francisco, CA and now based in Asheville, NC with readers and editors all over the US and abroad, The Rumpusis one of the longest-running independent online literary and culture magazines. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers readers already know and love. Often, we are an emerging writer's first notable publication, which is something we’re really proud of. We believe that literature builds community—and if reading The Rumpus makes you feel more connected, please show your support! Our Membership and subscription programs along with tax-deductible donations made to The Rumpus through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, help keep us going and brings us closer to sustainability. |
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