New Poetry & Columns
Rumpus Original Fiction: "Hóngmén Banquet" by Alice Evelyn Yang
“Weaned on hunger, she craved its familiarity—the gnawing acidity shoring up along the sides of her stomach a daily lullaby.”
Rumpus Original Column ENOUGH: "Ghost Ship" by Rachel R. Baum
“In the thickness of brine, stinging and cold, she / saw the rocking hulk of it, felt the stench of the pier’s decay.”
Rumpus Original Comic: "On Oversharing" by Angie Kang
“Always so quick to remove my armor, so willing.” |
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Interviews & Reviews
Stephanie Feldman interviews Chin-Sun Lee about Upcountry
“Haunting to me isn’t necessarily about spooks and ghosts. It’s about how any setting can energetically absorb and then disgorge whatever misdeeds might have occurred upon it.”
Jenny Bartoy interviews Maria Hummel about Goldenseal
“Before you start writing a murder mystery, you have to write out the murder.”
The First Book: Vanessa Chan on her novel The Storm We Made
"Ambition and achievement are great, but gratitude is the true source of joy." *Part of our newly launched First Book column! |
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Next up in our Indie x Indie
POETRY BOOK CLUB:
Paper Banners by Jane Miller
x Copper Canyon Press |
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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 Jan. 15, to receive our February Poetry Book Club pick Paper Banners by Jane Miller and join our subsciber-only conversation with author Jane Miller.
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 November's Poetry Book Club selection: A herald of desire, suffering, mortality, and the mission of poetry itself, Jane Miller’s Paper Banners “say[s] the cosmos / isn’t hostile. / Yet strangles a dove / with one hand.” Against this angst, Miller steps outside of history to contemplate voices of love, aging, and artmaking. Many poems are addressed to family members, friends, and young poets, or pay homage to familiar figures taken by time or tragedy, including Virginia Woolf, Osip Mandelstam, and the Song Dynasty poet Li Qingzhao. In clear, short lines, these poems harken to ancient banderoles, or pennants, which announced rallying cries on the lances of knights and mottoes on the flags of ships. Here, Miller’s Paper Banners is made of images of the American Southwest and scrutinizes its political and physical landscape. Like skywriting streamed in white smoke, this collection bears its message on the wind, its words addressed to anyone. As Miller catalogues the intimate experiences that make up a life—friendships, loves, dreams, our human connection to the environment—Paper Banners becomes a hope that “what will survive of us is love.”
About December's featured indie press: Copper Canyon Press publishes extraordinary poetry from around the world to engage the imaginations and intellects of readers. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to authors, editorial acumen, and dedication to the poetry audience. Copper Canyon Press publishes new collections of poetry by both revered and emerging American poets, translations of classical and contemporary work from many of the world’s cultures, re-issues of out-of-print poetry classics, anthologies, and prose books about poetry. |
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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). 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 . . .
January 15: Julia Fine is the author of The Upstairs House, winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, and What Should Be Wild, which was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior First Novel. Her third novel, Maddalena and the Dark, came out with Flatiron last June. She teaches writing in Chicago, where she lives with her family. Subscribe by Jan. 14!
February 1: Venita Blackburn is an award-winning author of the story collections Black Jesus and Other Superheroes (2017), How to Wrestle a Girl, (2021), and the debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, forthcoming in January of 2024. She is an Associate Professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno. Subscribe by Jan. 31! |
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