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Death and Rebirth: Armenians in Jerusalem
Artist Vic Lepejian sketched a ripe pomegranate onto an unburnished vase when my husband David and I entered the doorway of his art studio located on Jerusalem’s Via Dolorosa—the street where Jesus is...
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Talking Haram Auntie Poetics: A Conversation with Fatimah Asghar
Halal If You Hear Me is the third volume of the Breakbeat Poets anthology series from Haymarket Books, featuring Muslim writers who are women, queer, nonbinary, genderqueer, and/or trans. Co-edited by...
View ArticleA Parcel of Stories: Hard Damage by Aria Aber
Aria Aber’s first book of poetry, Hard Damage, does not consent to the simple narrative or the soundbite. It reminds readers that every displaced person, whether refugee, immigrant, or the child of...
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Terror Is a Faggot with Halal Sausages Strapped to His Chest
The new millennium was a year and nine months later than expected, and it took everyone by surprise. I was a kid living in the outer suburbs of Perth, just home from school, sprinting up our worn,...
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Samuel Barlow
Sam is sweating in the folding chair next to me in this crumbling cell. We’re on the third floor of block 12 of America’s most historic prison, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, ground zero...
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Be a Reed in the Wind: Talking with Aisha Sharif
Aisha Sharif is a poet and educator who has published widely, been nominated for a Pushcart, and is a Cave Canem fellow. Her work explores how identities of race, gender, and religion come together,...
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Why We Believe What We Believe: A Conversation with Dantiel W. Moniz
Dantiel W. Moniz’s debut story collection, Milk Blood Heat, just published this week from Grove Atlantic, but you might’ve already encountered her work in the Paris Review, Tin House, One Story,...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kaveh Akbar
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kaveh Akbar about his new collection, Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf, August 2021), punctuation as a poetic device, and uncertainty. This is an edited transcript of the...
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
Sarah Ghazal Ali, Erin L. McCoy, and Tawanda Mulalu are three writers who share a rigorous interrogation and love of sound, history, and lyric. I admire the music and depth in each of their work, the...
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The Divine Aquatic
Maa sits on the beach watching me swim into the ocean, her face alarmed as she screams, “Don’t go too far, don’t go too far!” I am sixteen and unruly. I keep swimming till the sound of the waves drown...
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