New Essays & Columns
Rumpus Original Fiction: "The Birdcage" by Nardine Taleb
“There had always been disgruntled people, but that summer, it felt different . . . Something was on the verge of rupture.”
Rumpus Original Essay: "Intact or In Pieces" by Annie McGreevy
“I cried so hard my jaw went slack and my cheek muscles were sore. Salt water left my eyes as if the moon itself were collecting it.”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Mia S. Willis
“i have started seeing road signs for dirty magic / since i began to approach her age / the way trees thin themselves between us”
Rumpus Original Comic: "Life in Motion" by Jake Slovis
“The messy details of our trip did not fit into either of these narratives. But that doesn't mean it wasn't beautiful.” |
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Interviews & Reviews
Barret Baumgart interviews Tyler Mills about The Bomb Cloud
“What kinds of stories do we bring to a place, and what kinds of stories are buried in the sand?”
Erin Vachon reviews Sam Sax's Yr Dead
“Yr Dead is necessary reading, a survival guide for the years to come, and a beacon of hope for everyone who’s paying attention.”
Christine Sneed interviews Nina Schuyler about In This Ravishing World
“I like that the book doesn’t neatly fit into the standard categories because...the old ways will not provide the way through this next step into the future.”
Robert Stinner reviews Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color
“Nathan stakes a claim for the seismic importance of queer sexuality against ideological erasure.” |
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| | | Join us on Instagram Live on Tuesday, August 13 at 1pm PST / 4pm EST for our next installment of Show Us Your Desk. Greg Mania's next guest belongs to Ruben Reyes Jr., author of There is a Rio Grande in Heaven. |
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| Thank you to this week's sponsor The Harvard Review. |
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| | | Besides reaching a large, engaged audience of literary readers, ads also help us keep the magazine alive! Interested in advertising your book, workshop, magazine, editorial services, etc? Contact Monica at ads@therumpus.net for additional information on rates, discounts, and site or e-newsletter availability. |
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| Do you want to establish a regular writing routine? |
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We recently launched a new Rumpus offering: The Writer's Welcome Kit, a 5-week asynchronous online course to establish your regular writing practice. This course was created by author and writing coach Paulette Perhach specifically for writers who are looking for a starting point as they begin to practice their craft in an intentional way. *Perhach's book, Welcome to the Writer's Life, was published in 2018 by Sasquatch Books / Penguin Random House and was selected as one of Poets & Writers' Best Books for Writers.
If you're a beginning writer in any genre who would like guidance on establishing a dedicated writing practice OR any writer who wants to commit to an intentional routine, this course was built for you.
Ready to start? |
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Next up in our Indie x Indie
POETRY BOOK CLUB
our FINAL selection:
Cloud Missives
by Kenzie Allen x Tin House |
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ANNOUNCEMENT: This is the FINAL book in our Indie x Indie Poetry Book Club!
Programs like our Poetry Book Club put you in conversation with the literary community and help keep The Rumpus running. However, the number of subscribers to this club has been low for 5+ years. We are currently losing money running this program. After making a few pivots and added promotional efforts, the interest still remained around 50 subscribers a month. We needed at least 100 steady subscribers to keep going. Sadly, we need to end the program and focus our efforts elsewhere for the sake of sustainability. This is not a program we wanted to end, but we truly can't keep any part of The Rumpus going without financial support.
However, we remain committed to championing emerging and established poets by publishing their poems in the magazine, providing poetry book review coverage, and running interviews with poets. The Poetry Book Club may return in another form in the future. In the meantime, we hope you’ll join us for our September selection and support The Rumpus in other ways by becoming a Member, receiving Letters in the Mail from authors, or making a tax-deductible donation.
Join by midnight August 15, to receive our SEPTEMBER Poetry Book Club pick, Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen. Subscribers will receive a copy of the book and an invite to join a conversation with author Kenzie Allen, a Rumpus editor, and a Tin House editor. Intimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist, Kenzie Allen reveals a life from what endures after tragedies and acts of survival. Across four sections, poems explore pop culture—the stereotypes in Peter Pan, Indiana Jones, and beyond—fairy tales, myths, protests, and forgotten histories, before arriving at a dazzling series of love poems that deepen our understanding of romantic, platonic, and communal love. Cloud Missives is an investigation, a manifestation, and a celebration: of the body, of what we make and remake, of the self, and of the heart. With care and deep attention, it asks what one can reimagine of Indigenous personhood in the wake of colonialism, what healing might look like when loving the world around you—and introduces readers to a profound new voice in poetry.
About the author:
Kenzie Allen is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, Boston Review, Narrative, The Paris Review’s The Daily, Best New Poets, Poets.org, and other venues. Born in West Texas, she now shares time between Toronto, Ontario; Stavanger, Norway; and the Oneida reservation in Green Bay, Wisconsin. About the Press:
Tin House expands the boundaries of what great literature can do. Publisher of award-winning books of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; home to a renowned workshop and seminar series; and partner of a critically acclaimed podcast, Tin House champions writing that is artful, dynamic, and original. We are proud to publish and promote writers who speak to a wide range of experience, and lend context and nuance to their examination of our world. |
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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, an author letter from . . .
July 1: Maggie Nye is an author, teacher, and editor living in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and nonfiction editor at Southeast Review. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Tin House, and the St. Albans School Writer in Residence program. Her writing interests include: adaptation, myth, ritual, girlhood, body horror, race and otherness, language-magic, and monstrosity. Her debut novel, The Curators (Northwestern University Press), involves a golem, a girl gang, and a dark chapter in Atlanta’s history. She is presently hard at work on a second one: a strange, radical retelling of the Medusa myth. Subscribe by August 14!
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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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