Poetry
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Brian Gyamfi
Soon after the rain, no sound is heard. / No fluttering of wings. / Just a silent house in a city / and father, haunted with visions / of barely and fire.
Contrast, Rumination, and Metamorphosis: Diannely Antigua’s Good Monster
As in her debut, Antigua heads off any feelings of confessional monotony by mixing her diary poems with an elegant variety of lesser confessional, more expositional poems.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Katherine Tunning
Thoughts well up like that sometimes. / Brief pleasure in watching them blossom, / cutting them off. Today is slow. / I expect tomorrow will be also.
Sacred Mire and the Cutting Edge of Anti-: Tawahum Bige’s Cut to Fortress
Bige as an in-your-face activist-poet resists the colonizer through a poetry they themselves appropriate and transform mainly via language play and voice into an indigenous poetry of personal redemption.
National Poetry Month: Hala Alyan
Patron saint of lost things: / napkin poem and thirty bucks and / I think her name started with M.
National Poetry Month: Ansel Elkins
we wanted the dreams / but didn’t want the dandelions / growing wild with delighted bees,
National Poetry Month: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
you just gotta know / when to toss them the meat / ‘try’ implies there is some latitude / in the outcome
National Poetry Month: Bernardo Wade
& Delirium shows me our kids / & the house we would raise them in / & my perfect job / & I think, damn, that was easy
“A Here that is Not This”: An Undocupoets Roundtable Conversation
Writing is not a luxury. It’s the documentation of our decolonial imaginary.
National Poetry Month: 黄梵 Huang Fan
My zodiac sign really is the rabbit / As a child, I ground my teeth in my sleep / According to the rabbit dictionary / That’s how you say pain
National Poetry Month: Mark Leidner
I found a chest / that contained an important upgrade // that let me absorb more damage / going forward,