| This Week from The Rumpus |
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- SPRING CLEANING! ALL Rumpus merch is 20%-50% off today through April 30!
- Week Three of National Poetry Month with poems by Brandon Som, Sanam Sheriff, Arda Collins, Mathias Svalina, and Harmony Holiday
- A Letter in the Mail from Jon Hickey, author of Big Chief
- An interview with Denne Michele Norris by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
- Reviews of Vivian Blaxell's Worthy of the Event and Anton Solomonik's Realistic Fiction by Erin Vachon. Sarah Giragosian's Mother Octopus reviewed by Barbara Ungar
- Fiction by Sabrina Lim Fang
- Essays by Jenny Li and Tamar Mekredijian
- Thank you to this week's sponsor Tahoma Literary Review
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| SPRING SALE!
Now through April 30, ALL Rumpus store merch is 20-50% off! |
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National Poetry Month
“I can’t help imagining a pork bun’s cameo, / its buttered surface in the burnt oranges / of the abstract expressionist’s colored fields.”
From "Finding a Baked Bao in his Suit Pocket, Victor Wong’s Barkeep" by Brandon Som
“I don’t want to die / in America, and in America you die.”
From "Lover, My Country" by Sanam Sheriff
“roads, asphalt like a cloud / in a black hole.”
From "Sea Cove Road" by Arda Collins
“my wife gives birth to a / Bible & my wife’s wife gives birth to a handful of / rusted nails”
From "I Give Birth to a Shadow" by Mathias Svalina
“The wage her youth her antics his mischief outsourced to wish Her revenge”
From "Handlers 3-7" by Harmony Holiday |
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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...
May 1: Jon Hickey’s debut novel, Big Chief (Simon & Schuster) will be released in April 2025. He earned an MFA from Cornell University and a Stegner Fellowship in fiction at Stanford University. His short stories have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, and the Massachusetts Review, among other journals. Originally from Minnesota and Wisconsin, he is a citizen of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Chippewa Indians (Anishinaabe). He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons. Subscribe by April 30! |
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Interviews & Reviews
“our capacity for imagination is boundless.”
Ursula Villarreal-Moura interviews Denne Michele Norris about When the Harvest Comes
“to be worthy of this moment is to spark a bonfire with our words...”
Erin Vachon reviews Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event: An Essay and Anton Solomonik’s Realistic Fiction
“Sarah Giragosian entwines mourning for her mother with grief for the natural world...”
Barbara Ungar reviews Sarah Giragosian’s Mother Octopus |
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New Essays & Columns
“My office cubicle is tiny because land is scarce, this carpark is tiny because land is scarce, my flat is tiny because land is scarce.”
Rumpus Original Fiction: "Tuesday Morning, Downtown" by Sabrina Lim Fang
“It is all in the Cloud, disembodied, so pure that engaging with it feels like religion.”
Rumpus Original Essay: "Pigs Rooting for Truffles" by Jenny Li
“Our fireplace was the only thing that remained.”
Rumpus Original Essay: "Home is a Word Unspoken" by Tamar Mekredijian |
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| Thank you to this week's sponsor
Tahoma Literary Review |
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| Applications for Tahoma Literary Review's Fellowship at Mineral Arts & Residences near Mt. Rainier, in Mineral, Washington are open now. Click here for additional information. |
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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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