![]() Subscribe to the Rumpus Poetry Book Clubs, and Letters in the Mail from authors. We believe that literature builds community-and if reading The Rumpus makes you feel more connected, please show your support! Get your Rumpus merch in our online store. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers readers already know and love. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We’ll bring the anti-monster spray you bring the incantations.įounded in 2009, The Rumpus is one of the longest running independent online literary and culture magazines. You’ll find our full guidelines at and can submit through our Rumpus submission manager powered by Submittable.īe lyric, be wild, be brave. We’re accepting essay submissions through Saturday, August 31. This October, as we approach Halloween, two years since the Harvey Weinstein story broke and just over a year since the Kavanaugh hearings, we’ll be exploring the theme, “On Monsters.” We want to hear about your monsters: Who or what are they? How have you defeated or tamed or reconsidered them? What does it mean to be monstrous yourself? What are you afraid of in the middle of the night, and how do you manage that fear? What makes a monster? There are children in cages on our border whose parents aren’t there to shoo away the monsters. A monster lives in our White House, who does monstrous things every day. Death is perhaps the biggest monster of them all. Art can be a monster, particularly when you’re trying to balance your creative and domestic responsibilities. Now she’s one of my goddesses, whose fury whispers to me like a balm.Īmerica is a monster. I was in my thirties before I reconsidered Medusa as a terrifying, snake-haired death-bringer. Sometimes my monsters are what sets me free. ![]() Sometimes my monsters are what keep me from writing (or what keep me from writing honestly). Sometimes I channel Lynda Barry and create monsters out of squiggles and lines to see them in visual form. I still manage my own monsters, though not often with lavender spray. She’s learning how to manage her monsters. When she was younger, I would use lavender mist as “anti-monster spray.” Now, when she’s worried about a shadow, she goes to fetch the spray herself and takes care them. ![]() There are monsters in my daughter’s room.
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