Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Nation, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, Waxwing, and the Best of the Net 2017. Claire Vaye Watkins’s second novel, I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness, opens with a woman, also named Claire Vaye Watkins, filling out a questionnaire for postpartum depression as her husband looks over her shoulder.A newborn lies in an infant seat at her feet.
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What follows is a list of books Rumpus editors can’t wait to read, forthcoming in the next six months. Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Owner and publisher: Alyson Sinclair (she/her) Editor-in-chief: Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn (she/they) Deputy editor: Ian MacAllen (he/him) Essays Team Senior. The Rumpus strives to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers we love. If a title is marked as a Rumpus Book Club or Poetry Book Club selection, you can receive this book before its release date and participate in an exclusive conversation with its author! Just head to our store and become a member today-and, through August 15, purchase a 6-month Book Club subscription and receive your own signed copy of Roxane Gay’s newest book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body! A WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE watching, laughing and energetically participating in an INTERACTIVE. (If you want a list for when everyone is talking about healthcare, find last week’s here.) wild-rumpus-masthead Jacob the Juggler, Wild Rumpus Circus.
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This week, we’ve decided to eschew current events in favor of giving you some exciting literature to look forward to. “The news, broadly speaking, hasn’t been good since November 8, 2016, and it wasn’t a picnic in the park prior to that fateful Election Day.