Poetry "Not an Exit" by Tarik Dobbs:
"I was seventeen interning at a natural gas line, I smelled / Like shit, frankly..." "Pages seventy-eight to eighty-four from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure" by Nicole Sealey:
"Attention: History, / temperamental as it's sold..."
"Ishmael" by Joshua Aiken:
"Dark-skinned boys in / a field. On one. Wind / matters." |
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Originals & Columns
Voices On Addiction: "Want to Believe" by Shelley Mann Hite:
"Fully immersed in water. Submerged. Purified. A baptism. It felt as if someone was trying to shake me to wake up. Pay attention." |
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Interviews & Reviews
Camille T. Dungy, broadening the scope of the environmental canon (an interview)
Duncan Whitmire reviews Seth Rogoff’s The Kirschbaum Lectures |
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Announcing our JUNE Book Club Picks |
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Every month subscribers receive a book in the mail handpicked by The Rumpus staff.Now through midnight on May 15, you can sign up for our May Poetry Book Club pick I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes and/or our Prose Book Club pick As If She Had A Say by Jennifer Fliss.
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.
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Rumpus Poetry Book Club Excerpt: "Sagittarius" from I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes
"On the plane to Zurich, you tell me / you’ve recently moved your birthday to June. // When I ask, how does one move their birthday, / you say that you’ve always felt // you deserved to be born in summer." |
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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 . . .
May 15: Janika Oza
June 1: to be announced! |
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Calls for Submissions
Kitchen Table Literary Arts x The Rumpus
Voices on Addiction:
Open May 1st - June 30th. 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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