New Essays & Columns
Rumpus Original Fiction: "What's It Like?" by Easton Smith
“The deer tottered, lurched, floundered in the lowlight, as if its knees were not joints but clefts, the bones only held together by sinew and cheap magic.”
Rumpus Original Column Voices on Addiction: "Incorrigible, A Love Story" by Jeannine Ouellette
“I see myself perched on a sateen... trying to look and sound a certain way. Trying to be the kind of teenaged girl a respectable couple might adopt.”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Chris Crowder
“My first word is berate. / Momma takes me to church. / They whipped and they stripped and they hung him high. / Another boy, not singing, laughs at the verbs.”
Rumpus Original Essay: "Going Home" by Grace Loh Prasad
“It had been a year and a half since I last saw them, and I was not prepared for how much things had deteriorated, and how vulnerable they had become.” |
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48 hour FLASH SALE!
50% off our Matriarchy Mugs
now until Sunday (or while supplies last) |
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Interviews & Reviews
Ashley Devon-Williamston interviews Lyn Patterson about The Postcards I Never Sent
“I think it can be powerful to share your truth in its rawness and for people to find connections and make their own meaning. Blackness is not a monolith.”
Deborah L. Williams reviews Susan Ostrov's Loveland
“Ostrov shares her various intimacies with us as a way to illustrate the myriad ways in which a woman can find fulfillment.”
Ewa Chrusciel interviews Hala Alyan about The Moon That Turns You Back
“I think of my responsibility as a poet to be one of seeking and transcribing truth...” |
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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.
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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: Ricky Ray is a poet, essayist and eco-mystic who lives with his wife and the ghost of his old brown dog in the old green hills of New England. He is the author of four books of poetry, including The Soul We Share, winner of The Aryamati Prize, and The Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself, a finalist for The Laurel Prize. He was educated at Columbia University and the Bennington Writing Seminars, and his awards include a Ron McFarland Poetry Prize, a Liam Rector Fellowship and a Zoeglossia Fellowship. He lectures on poetry, animism and integral ecology, and he serves on the advisory board of the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality at Harvard. Subscribe by July 31! |
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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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