This summer @therumpus.net published some truly stunning essays via our Essays section. Here's a #RumpusEssays thread: Starting things off, @josiahroberts.bsky.social's "To Adopt a Grandparent" therumpus.net/2025/05/06/t...

Read this beautiful, wonderful piece by our own MA in Writing alum @josiahroberts.bsky.social, and congratulations on such a stunning first essay publication in @therumpus.net!

“I hardly knew this old woman, but she was supposed to be important to me somehow.” From "To Adopt a Grandparent," a new original essay by @josiahroberts.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/Mi4wPFu

The mornings were reserved for thesis work. Thesis is done. This morning, I beat my record for staring at the wall with a solid hour and a half streak. Conquer one beast, onto the next. Grind never stops people. Shootin for a solid 4 hours. Don’t let anyone stop you from reaching your dreams

My first publication is out today with The Rumpus! It’s a piece about growing up without grandparents and working with a lot of old people at the Apple Store. You can read it here! therumpus.net/2025/05/06/t...

So proud of two of our @plnuwritingma.bsky.social students who received @awpwriter.bsky.social Intro Journals Project honors this year. Nonfiction Winner: @josiahroberts.bsky.social Poetry Honorable Mention: @itmebugail.bsky.social Read more here: www.pointloma.edu/news/plnu-ma...

my biggest hater has been spotted at #AWP2025 @josiahroberts.bsky.social @eldiagram.bsky.social

“Boy who cried wolf this!” “Boy who cried wolf that!” What about the boy who just cried? What about him?

What if the boy who cried wolf was just lonely

I’m getting a weird nagging feeling no one’s listening to me…

Not wearing green tomorrow so I can lure the leopard cons in and tell them to stop tricking all the leopards cuz it’s not cool who’s with me

Don’t sleep on it🗣️

Baguette things comin’

The chosen one

Only begotten son

begotten

Bagu

bag get what??

bag get

baguette

I’d be your driving crooner

Ebers Medical Papyrus, circa 1550 BCE. Oldest attested mention of migraines, as <gs-tp>: "half/side head". Shows up again in Galen of Pergamon 1700 years later with an identical construction: ἡμικρανία <hēmikranía> ἡμικρανία > Lat. hemicrania > O. French migraigne > English megrim, migraine Ow.

Hey look, the @plnuwritingma.bsky.social students started a reading series! Kudos to @itmebugail.bsky.social and @poetrybyemma.bsky.social for getting FROM THE MAW rolling tomorrow!

RIP Biff

choose your fighter y’all (choose me. I am the cooler nemesis)

2nite i saw 2 nemesi in their natural habitat @jess1et.bsky.social @josiahroberts.bsky.social

It’s right around this time when the dread sets in

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

If you’re someone who actively buys those little guac cups, I do not trust you

Mk.gee if u see this can you blurb my book one day?

Looking for books and essays on dreaming??

90% or the time returning to something I wrote I was proud of—I find myself, well, less proud.

I don’t know how to sit still

What do you all do to be like, idk, more aware of your body?

The downside of being completely unserious on here is that none of yall will believe me if im being serious

ME: I didn't choose the thug life THEM: you're eating soup in a cardigan at 10:30 on a Tuesday morning ME: I could not have been more clear

maybe sisyphus is happy but what about the boulder?:/

Im going by “Mordecai Applefoot” this year.

this 2025, I hereby declare war on all “ethans” if you’re name is Ethan, you can consider you and I enemies

been thinking about pen names

This 2025, this page is dedicated to #lifehacks Stay tuned folks, and consider your life HACKED😌

#lifehack: if your New Year’s resolution is toxic, easy to do, something you already pretty much do—you will FOR SURE get it done, and therefore feel productive. Example: I am going to forget to lock my car more this year. BOOM easy—done.

this new years, I’m going to share my opinion more. I already share my opinion a lot so I think this will be easy for me

micro bangs this, micro bangs that—whatchu know about MACRO bangs??

probably most toads struggle with social anxiety

I think probably most frogs evade taxes

my 2025 new year’s resolution is to come up with new years resolutions for 2026 by the end of 2025

r u ever afraid of your computer?

on a scale of bad to terrible to unbearably god awful, how bad is the band name “Group Syrup”?

just finished @misternagel.bsky.social Duplex. I read the 2nd book in this epic duology 1st which means I did it wrong I think. Oddly enough, I still don’t know exactly what BEEF HAM is. Apparently this book is not about BEEF HAM. Neither is the 2nd book. What I’m saying is you should check it out.