"it was / the ugly summer beginning to rot, / receding from a touch of gold / in the distance, and me / sometimes bending / to despair, my own heart slowing / to ruin"
From "I am the Holy Ghost! You are Entangled!" one of five new poems by Giovannai Rosa.
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"For this year’s Pride Month, we have selected thirty pieces from our archives to highlight the many LGBTQIA+ writers who have contributed to The Rumpus over the years."
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"A large hand is at work, and bewilderment / is a ploy to keep us pale. Spectacle is no excuse. / Metaphor will not rest until wrested."
From "Tiny Ransom," one of two new poems by Johanna Magin.
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"Fiction is a connective medium—it is a thing that writer and reader do together."
Alia Spartz interviews Kim Fu about The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts (@tinhouse.bsky.social).
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"It’s like I am in college again, bodies in and out of spaces with no belonging. It is a slow winter night and the future is far away."
From "The Part That Hurts," a new short story by Louise Scoville.
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"I read a short story a day because it feels to me like a devotional practice: it orients me to the many different ways there are of being human."
From "A Conversation between Rachel Khong and @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social."
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"How do you make a decision to be oriented towards positivity despite many unrelenting reasons not to be?"
Hannah Matthews interviews @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social about What I Made for Dinner (@catapultbooks.bsky.social).
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"please ten years from now where will you be / please I am afraid to ask / please I am afraid not to ask / please I am afraid there will be no one left who knows me"
From "Favor," a new poem by @birchwiley.bsky.social.
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“We curl like heat-seeking housecats around the titillating notion of the night creature, the undead rogue, the human made inhuman...”
From @tessmcgeer.bsky.social's latest entry for Books That Made Me Gay: The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice.
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"My stories belong to all my beloveds; they are given light and meaning in their shaping."
The Sisters of Song, Myth, Poetry, Prayer: Swati Sudarsan interviews Maya Salameh about Mermaid Theory (@haymarketbooks.org).
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