Interviews & Reviews
David Groff interviewed about his third book of poems, Live in Suspense.
"My father has always loomed over my work. He was an Episcopal priest. If you grow up as a preacher’s kid, you live in a fishbowl of faith, whether you want to or not."
Emma Staffaroni reviews Nicole Flattery’s Nothing Special.
"...whereas Flattery shares Plath’s pessimism, the Irish writer has managed not to obliterate her leading lady in the process of proving that the world is sexist."
Ruth Madievsky interviewed about her book, All-Night Pharmacy.
"There’s actually a lot of aggression and violence inherent in preteen girls. It just comes out in a different form because society tells women and girls that it needs to come out in a different form." |
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"Worship" written and illustrated by Kathleen Radigan:
"In eleventh grade at St. Rose of Lima, I became obsessed with the idea of suffering for a noble cause. I fantasized about facing down murderous enemies with a knowing smile. Withering away on a years-long hunger strike. All my life I'd attended Catholic school without feeling any particular religious fervor. it was love—not God—that I pictured myself dying for. Grand, horrific, consuming love."
Three Poems: "Hablando de Vallejo y Darwish" by Fady Joudah:
"Failed dreams sustain economies / and unlike the sea / I move about dry land. / Thursday afternoon I fell asleep / to clouds giving birth / to dragons too young to fly / in the south of a country north of another." |
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Every month subscribers receive a book in the mail handpicked by The Rumpus staff.Join by midnight tomorrow/JULY 15, to receive our August Poetry Book Club pick I Done Clicked my Heels Three Times by Dr. Taylor Byas.
As a subscriber, we'll send you a copy of this book the first week of August and you'll also be invited to an exclusive online video discussion with the book's author + 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. |
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Up next, author letters from . . .
July 15: Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Bianca (Four Way Books, March 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014), winner of the Late Night Library's 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry selected by Arisa White, as well as a finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets.(subscribe by TODAY/July 14)
August 1: Brian Turner author of Here, Bullet and two new poetry collections, The Wild Delight of Wild Things and The Goodbye World Poem, forthcoming this fall from Alice James Books (subscribe by July 31) |
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| Parallel Practice, a new monthly column at The Rumpus, is edited by our very own Anna Held. We are open for Funny Women and Book Reviews submissions year-round.
Poetry open reading period: Is now CLOSED. We reached over 500 submissions in less than 2 weeks. We capped submissions at 500 in order to allow our volunteer readers and editors to respond in a timely manner.
Essays open reading period: We're open for original essays June 2-August 1. Read this thread from our Essays Editor, Robbie Maakestad to learn more about what we're looking for.
(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.) |
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