Interviews & Reviews
Daniel A. Olivas interviews Diego Báez about Yaguareté White
"I hope my poems navigate the tightrope walk between authenticity and fraudulence without appearing flip or disinterested."
Sophie van Well Groeneveld reviews Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries
“Heti’s landing suggests a summative judgment of herself, an awareness of what she’s doing, of shame, and yet the text also refuses to feel ashamed.”
Susan Devan Harness interviews Linnea Axelsson about ÆDNAN
"When I start writing, I never know what the thing is going to be. It’s just something in your head that won’t go away, and you spend a lot of time trying to figure out: What is this?"
Mini interview with Mako Yoshikawa our next Letters in the Mail author.
"By accepting that I couldn’t solve the riddle of my father, I found peace." |
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New Fiction & Columns
Rumpus Original Comic: "Fasting or No Fasting?" by Zareen Choudhury
“Sorry, am I stuck in a time loop? We proceeded with the blood draw anyway.”
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"Billionaires, the editors of n+1 noted not too long ago, 'barely constitute a coherent object of thought.' They’re difficult to categorize, difficult to predict, and in the case of many, difficult to learn much about. And yet for all their mystery, they play an outsize role in our political, economic, and cultural lives. If we can’t beat them—and the deck is stacked heavily against us—the least we can do is try to understand them as best we can."
—Daniel Lefferts, What to Read When the World is Run by Billionaires |
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Next up in our Indie x Indie
POETRY BOOK CLUB:
Blue on a Blue Palette by Lynne Thompson
x BOA Editions |
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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 March 15, to receive our April Poetry Book Club pick Blue on a Blue Palette by Lynne Thompson and join our subsciber-only conversation with author Lynne Thompson.
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 April's Poetry Book Club selection: Lynne Thompson’s Blue on a Blue Palette reflects on the condition of women—their joys despite their histories, and their insistence on survival as issues of race, culture, pandemic, and climate threaten their livelihoods. The documentation of these personal odysseys—which vary stylistically from abecedarians to free verse to centos—replicate the many ways women travel through the stages of their lives, all negotiated on a palette encompassing various shades of blue. These poems demand your attention, your voice: “Say history. Claim. Say wild.”
“Lynne Thompson’s Blue on a Blue Palette is at turns—and, often, all at once—old and new. That is, rooted strong in a long tradition and legitimately experimental. Thompson’s range in form and subject matter is equaled only by the deftness with which she handles each. In these pages we get a true blue blueswoman who knows when to whisper and when to wail, one who has lived some, and means to make song of what she’s seen.” —John Murillo, author of Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
About April's featured indie press: Since its founding in 1976, BOA has published more than 300 books of American poetry, poetry-in-translation, and short fiction. BOA Editions, Ltd., a not-for-profit publisher of poetry and other literary works, fosters readership and appreciation of contemporary literature. By identifying, cultivating, and publishing both new and established poets and selecting authors of unique literary talent, BOA brings high quality literature to the public. Support for this effort comes from the sale of its publications, grant funding, and private donations.
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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 . . .
March 1: Mako Yoshikawa is the author of the novels One Hundred and One Waysand Once Removed. Her memoir Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir is forthcoming this month. Her essays have been published in LitHub, Harvard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Missouri Review, and Best American Essays, among other places. Yoshikawa attended Columbia University, received a Masters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Lincoln College, Oxford, and has a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a professor of creative writing and director of the creative writing graduate program at Emerson College. She lives in Boston and Baltimore. Subscribe by Feb. 29! |
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Comics is open for submissions until March 31.
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(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.) |
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