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ENOUGH: Three Poems – The Rumpus
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women, […]
I Didn’t Learn My Grandfather’s Name Until He Died
When my father’s father died, I realized with aching shock that I had never learned his name. I can recall […]
Feeding the Fear – The Rumpus
Nothing is worse to me than waking up in the middle of the night, in some hour so far from […]
The Comfort Room – The Rumpus
Elissa adopted Ollie a couple of years after her diagnosis. He was a senior dog, the kind not often chosen—a […]
Dream Futures – The Rumpus
Futures What can we learn from the past in order to dream a new future? When writing my novel Memory […]
Parallel Practice: Aftermath – The Rumpus
Parallel Practice is a new column exploring the other practices and disciplines that inform but are separate from our writing […]
FICTION
Rumpus Original Fiction: Let All Our Ghosts Depart
The summer after I graduated high school, my mother and I took a trip to India. She wanted to show […]
Rumpus Original Fiction: Get Gone
After I dropped out of college, I worked at a diner near downtown Orlando that served breakfast all day. The […]
Rumpus Original Fiction: Loss – The Rumpus
Every night, my daughter spent the minutes before bed diligently writing in the notebook she’d bought at her school bookfair. […]
Rumpus Original Fiction: Pulmonary – The Rumpus
i: minimalist living I build a home inside my mother’s cancer-riddled lungs. This is a product of my belief that if […]
Rumpus Original Fiction: Hóngmén Banquet
The private banquet room was raucous, adrift with the sound of popping oil and clinking glasses. The waitress noted that […]
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Photograph
Lumumba Street, where our house stood among rows of other rental blocks in a multicolored collage, had no order. But […]
INTERVIEWS
Feral Feminisms in Noir: A Conversation with Kirsten Sundberg LunstrumÂ
Under the hard rain of the Pacific Northwest winter of 1951, two prison guards discover a growling, wild-eyed girl surviving […]
The Vastness of What We Don’t See: A Conversation with Oluwaseun Olayiwola
In Oluwaseun Olayiwola’s stunning debut, Strange Beach (Soft Skull, 2025), we are invited to deep-dive into the psychic landscapes of […]
Our Bodies are Bodies and Our Bones Are Bones: A Conversation with Amanda Hawkins
In their debut poetry collection, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones (Wandering Aengus Press, 2025), Amanda Hawkins […]
The Comic Form, Grief Time, and Homecoming in Reverse: A Conversation with Kay Sohini
In This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025), Kay Sohini writes about her reverse homecoming—that is, […]
Open to the World: A Conversation with Irvin Weathersby Jr.
I met Irvin Weathersby Jr. on the day before the United States national elections last fall. We were on opposite […]
Saints, Bodies, and Machines: A Conversation with Erika Swyler
Erika Swyler’s third novel, We Lived on Horizon (Atria Books, 2025), presents a futuristic world where the last of humanity […]
POETRY
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Logan Fry
Gena Rowlands’ Red Right Hand The dark thoughts dense with years.The light thoughts dense with years.The indents of the easiness […]
National Poetry Month: Chrysanthemum – The Rumpus
Biological Woman after Maya Angelou Out,           I answer nature’s call:                      what I risk to possess           a body that must empty—                                                                              Once, a self-identified                                                                  feminist warned […]
National Poetry Month: Amanda Johnston
On the Other Side for the children of Gardner Betts From my window, I see the children’s prison. Juvenile detention sounds softer […]
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Nazifa Islam
Nothing in Moderation       a found poem: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Path Writing is a ruinous sickness. It is hysteriaand […]
National Poetry Month: Ariana Brown
The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of […]
National Poetry Month: Maya Marshall
Iterations, Or Milkweed Isn’t Poisonous for Butterflies My boyfriend fell in love with a woman on a screen this afternoon.I […]