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The cheap housing they are cooped up in becomes even less glamorous during the blackouts. Fiction Rumpus Original Fiction: Happy Birthday, I Love You Rebekah Bergman May 13, 2024 Almost unwittingly, Denver bent forward. But just before making contact with his pillowy cheek, it happened. Interviews Complicating Cancel Culture: A Conversation with Christine Ma-Kellams Erin Langner May 13, 2024 Subconsciously, when writing my own work, I want to make sure that people understand how these characters became who they are. Comics Softmongering Kristin Emanuel May 9, 2024 I wake aching; I know nothing about living, though I’ve been alive all my life, afraid of giving. Poetry Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Dabin Jeong Dabin Jeong May 9, 2024 What time is it there / It is like another world / Have you eaten yet Interviews The First Book The First Book: Eddie Ahn Eddie Ahn May 8, 2024 The themes in the book subsequently shaped the story’s chronology and created a different style of graphic storytelling, connecting my family’s history with my community work and service. Poetry Reviews Embodiment as a Sensorial Practice In Saretta Morgan’s Alt-Nature Asa Drake May 8, 2024 Morgan practices the language of collective and enumerated ecologies . . . lexicons we often consider distinct, without an ecotone. Interviews Mother-Daughter Bonds and the Power of Greek Myth: A Conversation with Ann Batchelder Katie Bannon May 8, 2024 My hope is that as a society we can emphasize compassion over stigma and treatment over punishment. News & Upcoming Events Join the Rumpus Board April Spotlight: Letters in the Mail March Spotlight: Letters in the Mail February Spotlight: Letters in the Mail January Spotlight: Letters in the Mail Become a member! Become a MONTHLY or ANNUAL RUMPUS MEMBER and receive exclusive content, editorial insights, merch discounts, and more! * Annual Members also receive access to submit their work year-round outside of our regular no-fee reading periods. Be a part of building a better Rumpus ! JOIN NOW! Featured Comics Your Ripples Sarah Maloney April 4, 2024 Sketch Book Reviews: The Complete Gardener Kateri Kramer March 21, 2024 Queer As Family Brian Gresko March 7, 2024 more comics Essays Back into The Garden: The (Re)turn at the End of Ross Gay’s Poem To the Mulberry Tree” Dan Hodgson April 19, 2024 How to Feed a Dying Body Xi Chen April 16, 2024 Crows in this Part of New Delhi Shreyasi Sharma April 2, 2024 more Essays Letters in the Mail from Authors! Receive letters with creative prompts from some of our favorite authors written just for Rumpus readers and sent straight into your (snail) mailbox 2 x a month! Sign up for Letters! Fiction Rumpus Original Fiction: Trinity Jessica Goldschmidt April 15, 2024 Rumpus Original Fiction: Forever Hers Demetrius Buckley March 25, 2024 Rumpus Original Fiction: embody Sara Bastian March 18, 2024 More Fiction What to Read When What to Read When You Want to Listen Stephanie Trott March 8, 2024 What to Read When the World Is Run by Billionaires Daniel Lefferts February 23, 2024 What To Read When The World Is On Fire Sarah Ruiz-Grossman February 9, 2024 More Lists Join the Rumpus Poetry Book Club to receive a new poetry collection every month and an invite to a subscriber-only video conversation with the author and a Rumpus Editor. Next up: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski. Subscribe by May 15, 2024 to start with this title. JOIN THE CLUB Poetry A Panoptical View of Slough: On Sylvia Legris’s The Principle of Rapid Peering Elaina Friedman April 24, 2024 National Poetry Month: Daniella Toosie-Watson Daniella Toosie-Watson April 23, 2024 National Poetry Month: Jai Hamid Bashir Jai Hamid Bashir April 22, 2024 More Poetry Columns Voices on Addiction: Last Drunk Anne Palmer April 23, 2024 Voices on Addiction: Mayflies Jennifer Furner March 26, 2024 ENOUGH: Fire Doina Tonner March 12, 2024 More Columns Reviews A Dance of One’s Own: Nicolette Polek’s Bitter Water Opera Kassia Oset April 23, 2024 So Foreign Yet So Familiar: Three Early Novels by Amit Chaudhuri Anushka Joshi April 16, 2024 A Comedy of Venture Capitalism: Ryan Chapman’s The Audacity Spencer Gaffney April 9, 2024 More Reviews Interviews The Bloodier Your Hands, the More Loyal You Become to the System: A Conversation with Sarah Langan Stephanie Feldman April 24, 2024 Everything in Our Lived Presence is Interconnected: A Conversation with Ellen van Neerven Caitlin Coey April 22, 2024 Sophomore efforts: A Conversation Between Rachel Khong and Crystal Hana Kim Rachel Khong April 17, 2024 More Interviews Even more Rumpus Become a Member! Become a MONTHLY or ANNUAL RUMPUS MEMBER and receive exclusive content, editorial insights, merch discounts, and more! Annual Members also receive access to submit their work year-round outside of our regular no-fee reading periods. Be a part of building a better Rumpus ! Join today! COMMUNITY SUPPORT KEEPS THE MAGAZINE GOING! Founded in 2009 in San Francisco and now based in Asheville, NC (with editors and contributors all over the US and abroad!), The Rumpus is one of the longest-running online literary magazines around. We’ve been independent from the start , which means we’re not connected with any academic institution, wealthy benefactor, or part of a larger publishing company. The vast majority of the magazine’s funding comes from reader support. In other words, we can’t survive without YOU! 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