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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Rosanna Warren
In her most recent volume of poems, So Forth, Rosanna Warren upturns our expectations as she brings her painterly eye, scholarly mind, and fine ear tuned to metrics both ancient and modern, to bear on...
View ArticleInterrogating Language: Carlos Andrés Gómez’s Fractures
In my sophomore year of high school, I began a tradition of walking into school with my earphones connected to my iPod and hidden under my hijab, listening solemnly to Vitruvius, Carlos Andrés Gómez’s...
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What Am I Fighting For?: A Conversation with Deborah A. Miranda
Deborah A. Miranda is the author of four collections of poetry, Indian Cartography (Greenfield Review Press, 1999), The Zen of La Llorona (Salt Publishing, 2005), Raised by Humans (Tia Chucha, 2015),...
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A Poet of Ecology: Talking with Kate Gaskin
Amidst the constantly changing landscape generated by household moves required by her spouse’s service in the US Air Force, Alabama native Kate Gaskin has successfully grafted an academic and literary...
View ArticleHell Is a Young Man: Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent
At the college I attended, fraternities weren’t formally recognized by the administration. Without frat houses—the ramshackle, portico-embellished kind Animal House made famous—the boys had to display...
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What We Don’t Say: Talking with Ghinwa Jawhari
Ghinwa Jawhari is a Lebanese American writer whose essays, fiction, and poems appear or are forthcoming in Catapult, Narrative, Mizna, The Adroit Journal, The Bangalore Review, and others. Her work...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight
The Boys arrived at Three-Finger Freddie’s house, which was neatly tucked in the middle of a cul-de-sac. Freddie’s basketball hoop was regulation size, and the court, which was a rounded section of...
View ArticleThe Trauma of Surviving: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
“For all of my mothers, each of whom fed me in her own way, and for everyone whose voices have gone unheard.” – Grace M. Cho In her lifetime, writer and academic Grace M. Cho has had three mothers....
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: On the Last Day, the Ancestors Came
This short story was first published in The Rumpus on October 16, 2019. Third of July, Virginia Beach. Their skin hot from the burning sun, and now the wind throwing shovels, tossing red and blue...
View ArticleFrom the Archive: Explicit Violence
This was originally published at The Rumpus on August 22, 2012. During the month of June 2022, we’re highlighting some of our favorite work from The Rumpus archives to show readers how the magazine has...
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