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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #203: Molly Spencer
Molly Spencer’s debut collection of poetry, If the House, was chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2019 Brittingham Prize. Her recent poetry has appeared in FIELD, The Georgia Review, New England Review,...
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Owning the Narrative: A Conversation with Megan Fernandes
Megan Fernandes is a writer known for her purposeful, driven words that defy traditionally defined boundaries or easy summarization. She’s a poet, yes, but she also shoves aside walls that enclose...
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Ada Bloom Finds the Windmill”
Ada found a forgotten windmill. She was walking with PJ in the patch of bush between her house and Toby Layton’s. She was already nine and still wearing her jumper back to front. PJ was old and broad...
View ArticleWhat We Eventually Forget: Bernadette Mayer’s Memory
During the month of July in 1971, poet Bernadette Mayer exposed a roll of 35 mm film every day and kept a daily journal. The result was what Mayer calls an “emotional science project”: a conceptual,...
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The Discourse of Undocumentedness: Talking with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Karla Cornejo Villaviecencio is the first undocumented person to be nominated for a National Book Award, which is a historic achievement. Her debut book, The Undocumented Americans, is shortlisted for...
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On Relic and Recovery: A Conversation with Kimiko Hahn
Kimiko Hahn’s tenth book of poems, Foreign Bodies, is inspired by the Chevalier Jackson Collection at Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum, an assemblage of inhaled and swallowed objects Dr. Jackson extracted...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Molly Spencer
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Molly Spencer about her new collection, Hinge (SIU Press, October 2020), long roads to publication, fairy tales, writing while parenting, and more. This is an...
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Imposing the Life on the System: A Conversation with Eula Biss
In her latest book, Having and Being Had (Riverhead Books, September 2020) Eula Biss creates a diorama of what capitalism looks like in a privileged, middle-class life. Comprised of short pieces,...
View ArticleWord by Word, Brick by Brick: Christine Larusso’s There Will Be No More...
Reading has been an essential refuge for me during this pandemic, and I trust I am not alone. Of course reading was always a refuge, but the need to read, to choose that silence and invoke that...
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Funny Women: Who’s the Man in a Lesbian Relationship? A Guide for Curious...
Begin with a brief but informal questionnaire: Who typically takes out the trash? Who is carrying Infinite Jest on their person? Whom do birds trust more? If there’s no clear answer, then proceed with...
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