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Rumpus Original Fiction: Daddies and Sons
When he was a little boy, Jeb Coleman would pick at the scabs on his knees and elbows, imagining how his daddy would suffer before dying. The old man would often get drunk on Four Roses whiskey and...
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Poetry as Incantation: Talking with Andrea Actis
On a December evening in 2007, Andrea Actis found her father dead in her East Vancouver apartment. Her debut book, Grey All Over, which she sometimes describes as a “collaboration with my father’s...
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Human”
On the night before Michael’s stepfather, Dave, was taken to the skilled nursing facility, he felt sure this was not the way it should work. Dave was dying, but everyone was dying. So much had changed...
View ArticleENOUGH: The Color of the Cast
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women, trans, and nonbinary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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Not Defined by Grief: A Conversation with Julie Marie Wade
I was first introduced to Julie Marie Wade’s poetry when The Rumpus asked me to review her novella-in-poems, Same-Sexy Marriage. In that book, Wade offers a hilarious ploy to combat a family’s...
View ArticleThe More Painful Absence: Keema Waterfield’s Inside Passage
The question of one’s place in the world punctuates the pages of Keema Waterfield’s new memoir, Inside Passage, as her young mother attempts to hack out a life for herself and her children....
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Starting with Fire: A Conversation with Mai Der Vang
Mai Der Vang is a Hmong American poet and author of the Walt Whitman Award-winning poetry collection, Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017). The daughter of Hmong refugees who fled Laos after the Vietnam...
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Lamentation for Songbirds
Yellow warblers are tiny, singing birds that live and breed in thickets and the crooks of low branches. They migrate along the Atlantic Flyway, a route which follows North America’s eastern coast,...
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Before
The future enters us, writes Rainer Maria Rilke, in order to be transformed in us, long before it happens. Consider, for instance, his infant sister’s christening gown packed in a storage trunk after...
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Joe at the Aquarium
I pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues. It was two years before he’d have his own wheelchair and four years before he died. That day, my parents and I drove...
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