New on THE RUMPUS

Originals

"The Litany of Invisible Things" by Vincent Anioke:
"Sleepless, you have started thinking of the little shop at the end of Dhamijah Street."

"By Heart" by John A. Nieves:
"You are all chorus and no verse—catchy / and repetitive—just a few words and a rhyme."

FUNNY WOMEN: "Excerpts From George Eliot's Middlemuppet" by Miriam Jayaratna:
"Miss Piggy’s luscious cheek, the color of a freshly plucked peach, was streaked with tears."
What To Read When Celebrating Black History, curated by The Rumpus: 
Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi
Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
The Islands by Dionne Irving
Inheritance by Taylor Johnson
The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks
Please Make Me Pretty, I Don’t Want to Die by Tawanda Mulalu
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor
Composition by Junious Ward

Interviews & Reviews

  • Junious Ward, to break, combine, and create form (an interview)
  • Clayton Bradshaw reviews Zülfü Livaneli’s The Fisherman and His Son
  • A.E. Stallings, syllabics, myth, and writing amidst change (an interview)

Calls for Submissions

Closing soon: Comics and fiction submissions are open through mid-March.

We are open for Funny Women and Reviews submissions year-round.

Recently closed: Essays open reading period. We received over 700 submissions in Jan. & Feb.!

(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.)

Support The Rumpus's 2nd annual Poetry Month fundraiser!

Celebrate poetry and proclaim your love for The Rumpus year-round. All profits go towards keeping our independent lit magazine afloat. When you order during the month of March 2023, 50% of profits go into the April contributor pool. During National Poetry Month we publish original poetry every day and have twice the number of contributors to pay compared to other months of the year.

Multiple colors and sizes available in both t-shirts & sweatshirts. With and without cats!

Illustrations and design by Petra Lee and Noah Lawrence-Holder. Commissioned specifically for The Rumpus. Check out both of their work!
READ MORE POEMS with CATS!
READ MORE POEMS without CATS

Rumpus April Book Club Picks
Every month subscribers receive a book in the mail handpicked by The Rumpus staff. Now through March 15, you can sign up for our April Book Club pick Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastropheand/or our Poetry Book Club pick Katie Farris' Standing in the Forest of Being Alive.

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.

We're also trying something new this season! For our April Poetry Book Club pick, the book's Editor, Carey Salerno, will join in to offer insights about how the book came together with Alice James Books. We'll be inviting editors and others who were important in a book's publication process to offer our our subscribers some added insights into how books come together!

 
"Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World" excerpted from Standing In The Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris: "To train myself to find in the midst of hell / what isn’t hell." 
JOIN THE BOOK CLUB
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JOIN BOTH!

Letters in the Mail (from authors!)

Make your mailbox fun! Letters in the Mail is a Rumpus subscription in which you receive an actual, postmarked letter from one of your favorite writers in your IRL mailbox twice a month. 

Coming up for adults!
March 15: Idra Novey (read her bio and a short quote from her letter in the graphic above)
April 1: Erica Berry

Coming up for Kids!
March 15: Anya Josephs
April 1: Sonja Thomas
SUBSCRIBE to Letters

RUMPUS EVENTS

See you in Seattle!

Thursday, March 9 @ 7 PM (doors @ 6:30):
Join The Rumpus and authors Kristen Arnett, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Allegra Hyde, and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya for an evening of Sapphic Storytelling emceed by Rumpus Editor-in-chief Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, drinks, mingling, and a dance party (starting at 10:30 pm). In partnership with Elliot Bay Book Company.

Tickets $20 in advance, which INCLUDES 2 complimentary DRINK TICKETS/ $25 door, 1 bev ticket included depending on availability. 21+.

Friday, March 10 @ 7:30 PM:
Join Coffee House Press, Feminist Press, and The Rumpus for an evening of readings, drinks, and community fun! Sliding scale price includes open wine bar.

Featuring readings by . . .

Courtney Faye Taylor (author of CONCENTRATE *our Dec. Poetry Book Club pick!)

Eleni Sikelianos (author of YOUR KINGDOM, WHAT I KNEW, MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY)

Joe Vallese (editor of IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET)

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (author of CHILDREN OF THE LAND, CENZONTLE, DULCE)

Tom Comitta (author of THE NATURE BOOK, 〇, AIRPORT NOVELLA)

YZ Chin (author of THE AGE OF GOODBYES, EDGE CASE, THOUGH I GET HOME)

Reader Support Keeps The Rumpus Going!
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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