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Rooted to the Earth: The Carrying by Ada Limón
Women carry many loads. They carry with their bodies—physical labor they do on behalf of their homes, their jobs, and/or their families. Some things they carry only as mental or emotional weight, given...
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Portals
The question I always come back to is the date. Does it mean anything that these events all happened on December 21? In 1948, my father and his twin brother were born. In 1990, when I was eleven, my...
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FUNNY WOMEN: Terms & Conditions of Your Egg Freezing Groupon
Thank you for purchasing Later Baby®’s Deluxe Egg Freezing Groupon! Please read the fine print below that outlines the terms and conditions of mastering your uterus. USAGE (i) Groupon expires X days...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers about her new book The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons (Acre Books, March 2020), sonnet crowns, formal experimentation, the Mars rover,...
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Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney
In her debut memoir, The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs, Jennifer Berney tells an intimate story of queer family-building. The book weaves Berney’s...
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This Frozen Life
Day 1: Egg It begins, of course, with division. We forget this fact; we overlook it, caught up instead with communion: a man, a woman. Some act of will. But in conception, communion is a cause, not a...
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Subverting the Wild West: A Conversation with Anna North
“In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. Like a lot of things, it didn’t happen all at once.” So begins Outlawed, Anna North’s latest novel. Set in an alternative Old West, the novel follows...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: A Disappointment
Soon after we decided that indeed, we wanted children, I was pregnant. As the child in my belly grew, so did my husband’s joy. How unexpected, to be expecting so soon, and with us both over thirty! I...
View ArticleBringing to Light: A Gathering and Tethering of Memory in Darla Himeles’s Cleave
I first got to know Darla Himeles through a mutual acquaintance in the literary world when she offered me an advanced reader’s copy of Himeles’s first full-length poetry collection Cleave, which sings...
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Why an Anthology on Reproductive Freedom Is Needed Now
Books are soulful beings that come into our fast world slowly. While they’re being written, revised, edited, copyedited, and published, the world around them shape-shifts. When I began to curate the...
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