New Poetry & Columns
Rumpus Original Fiction: "Counting" by Aleksandra Kimińska
“You dug the grave with a spatula taken from the kitchen and cried silently until you heard the birds starting to sing.” |
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Interviews & Reviews
Ashley-Devon Williamston interviews Dr. Taylor Byas about Poemhood
“I think poetry in particular has the space to really subvert expected narratives, to break what is traditional, to experiment, to erase and reclaim.”
Rose Courteau reviews Kyle Chayka's Filterworld
“Trying to leave the banality of our embodied lives, we travel to the internet, spending so much time and money there that we have little left to invest offline.”
Alexandra Chang interviews Alexander Sammartino's Last Acts
"The sense of finality being sustained [and] the repetition of a last shot felt poetic to me. The apocalypse drags on." |
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| Next up in our Indie x Indie
POETRY BOOK CLUB:
Hatch by Jenny Irish
x Curbstone Books |
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For our September 2023 - August 2024 selections (and possibly beyond!), we’ll focus on great new poetry collections AND hear from the indie publishers behind the books with our new Indie x Indie Poetry Book Club format!
Join by midnight Feb. 15, to receive our March Poetry Book Club pick Hatch by Jenny Irish and join our subsciber-only conversation with author Jenny Irish and Curbstone Books editor Marisa Siegel.
As a subscriber, we'll send you a copy of this book the first week of October and you'll also be invited to an exclusive online video discussion with the book's author + the author's editor + a Rumpus Editor and fellow book club members. 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.
About March's Poetry Book Club selection: The prose poems in Jenny Irish’s newest collection, Hatch, trace the consciousness of an artificial womb that must confront the role she has played in the continuation of the dying of the human species. Hatch's apocalyptic vision engages with the most pressing concerns of our moment: reproductive rights and climate crises, gender and race bias in healthcare and technology, disinformation and the ominous promises of artificial intelligence. Irish conducts an autopsy on the aspects of American experience that could have served as catalyst for action, but did not. Part elegy, part prophecy, Hatch is a feminist hybrid narrative that casts a surgical light on our present and ahead to our future.
“Jenny Irish’s vibrant use of language and imagery makes each page of Hatch sing. She can turn a sentence into a shiv, a paragraph into a punch. This collection is a deep, surprising, chilling — yet, somehow, also really fun — look at who we are as humans, at what we’ve done to the earth and each other, and at where the future may lead us (or, perhaps more accurately, how we as humans may impact the future of all life on the planet).” — Gayle Brandeis, author of Many Restless Concerns
About December's featured indie press: Founded in 1893, Northwestern University Press publishes works of enduring scholarly and cultural value, extending the university’s mission to a community of readers throughout the world. The Press has an international reputation for publishing translations of scholarly work as well as fiction, drama, and poetry. Curbstone Books is an imprint of N
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The Rumpus at AWP 2024
in Kansas City, MO
Feb. 8-10
If you're headed to Kansas City for AWP in early Feb. (or live there already!), we hope to see you at one or BOTH of the events we're taking part in. RSVP and ticketing links below.
We'll also be tabling at the Book Fair (#1707) and offering only-at-AWP sign up bonus gifts for readers who become new Rumpus Members, join the Poetry Book Club, or subscribe to Letters in the Mail from authors.
See y'all soon! |
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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!
Up next, author letters from . . .February 15: Marisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections The Haunted House, Reversible, and, most recently, DIARY (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023). She is the editor of The Weird Sister Collection (Feminist Press, 2024), and co-editor, with Megan Milks, of We Are The Baby-Sitters Club. Marisa is the creator of Weird Sister, a website and organization that explores the intersections of feminism, literature, and pop culture, and co-host of the 90s rock podcast All Our Pretty Songs. She lives in New York. Subscribe by Feb. 14!March 1: Mako Yoshikawa is the author of the novels One Hundred and One Waysand Once Removed. Her memoir Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir is forthcoming this month. Her essays have been published in LitHub, Harvard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Missouri Review, and Best American Essays, among other places. Yoshikawa attended Columbia University, received a Masters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Lincoln College, Oxford, and has a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a professor of creative writing and director of the creative writing graduate program at Emerson College. She lives in Boston and Baltimore. Subscribe by Feb. 29! |
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| Comics is open for new submissions now until March 31.
Essays are open now until Feb. 28 for new work.
We're now accepting submission for our Enough column from Feb. 1-29.
We are open for Funny Women and Book Reviews submissions year-round.
(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.) |
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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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