Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If your Cinco de Mayo was too excelente for you to spend much time online, here’s a recap of what happened on the Rumpus this weekend.
An aquatic wonderland of a comic from Yumi Sakugawa.
“What if we are stuck?
...morePosts Tagged: National Poetry Month
The Rumpus National Poetry Month Project 2013
Welcome to the Rumpus National Poetry Month Project! This is the fifth time in a row we’ve celebrated April with a previously unpublished poem a day. We’ll update this post each day with a link to that day’s poem. Enjoy!
April 1: “To Find Stars In Another Language” by Elizabeth Bradfield
April 2: “To Mercury, In Retrograde” by Randall Mann
April 3: “To Biespiel From United Flight 1037″ by David Biespiel
April 4: “Sawed-Through Link” by Marilyn Nelson
April 5: “Tar Baby” by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 34: “Newborn” by Deborah Ager
This brings our 2013 National Poetry Month Project to a close. I’d like to thank all 34 poets who trusted us with their work and all the people who read, appreciated, and forwarded their work along on Facebook and Twitter, via email and word of mouth.
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 33: “______________________ studio practice with italicized Michael Ondaatje quote” by Khadijah Queen
30 days hath Septemnber, April June and November, but National Poetry Month hath as many days as we want it to hath.
______________________ studio practice with italicized Michael Ondaatje quote
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 32: “Some Philosophies of Orbit” by Wesley Rothman
Some Philosophies of Orbit
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 31: “loose strife” by Quan Barry
Here at The Rumpus, we’re never satisfied with the 30 days of National Poetry Month. We like to stretch it out a little.
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 29: “The Qiana Shirt, 1976, by Emilio Pucci” by Qiana Towns
The Qiana Shirt, 1976, by Emilio Pucci
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 27: “Aubade With Mosquito Bites” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aubade With Mosquito Bites
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 26: “but she wasn’t from my south” by Randall Horton
But She Wasn’t From My South
i’ve been trying to recall nostalgia, how
hidden within deep memory they call it
saudade, its origin portugal, no i’ve never been
lost to a lover, sadly misled, discarded,
National Poetry Month Day 21: “Letters from Saint Francis” by Joshua Heineman
Letters from Saint Francis
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 20: “Ruminations on cud from five of my fullest stomachs” by Matt Mauch
Ruminations on cud from five of my fullest stomachs
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 19: “The Sturdiness” by Sina Queyras
The Sturdiness
For a long time I was thinking that I had to do more.
The way a dancer looks away from the camera.
...moreRecord-a-Poem!
Let’s help the Poetry Foundation celebrate National Poetry Month by recording our favorite poems!
Check out their SoundCloud page where, in just a few clicks, you can record yourself reading any poem of your choosing. It’s free, easy, and bound to spread internet poetry love near and far.
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 17: “Brandon Bryant: MQ-1 Predator Sensor Operator” by Jill McDonough
Brandon Bryant: MQ-1 Predator Sensor Operator
He lives in Montana now. Talks to German magazines, plus
Canadian radio shows. He coaches soccer, still has to tell us
everything. How it works, how many screens. How many fly
one drone. Fourteen, and two.
National Poetry Month Day 16: “Darth Vader, King Laios (Fill Out Their Applications as, Across the Lobby, Genghis Khan’s “Cat’s in the Cradle” Ringtone Plays): Fathers of the Year” by Douglas Kearney
Darth Vader, King Laios (Fill Out Their Applications as, Across the Lobby, Genghis Khan’s “Cat’s in the Cradle” Ringtone Plays): Fathers of the Year
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 14: “Sober Lullaby” by Matthew Henriksen
Sober Lullaby
Oak tree in time this story makes no recognition
A photo will not distance music caught in a wind
That entered the room where the child slept
National Poetry Month Day 13: “Ghosts” by Brachah Goykadosh
Ghosts
Ghosts who I loved wandering through the glass doors and the turnstiles
without seeing me walking swiftly behind them.
National Poetry Month Day 11: “Billy Divine” by Adam McGovern
Billy Divine
The American Primeval
is not the green garden we think we’ve lost
it’s stark white cloudless sky
above a cinder-gray shack
National Poetry Month Day 10: “Seven Confessions: A Chapbook” by Julie Sheehan
Seven Confessions: A Chapbook
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 8: “The American Dream Visits While I Clean” by Julie Brooks Barbour
The American Dream Visits While I Clean
It wasn’t part of me, only something I listened to,
like radio music or dialogue on the evening news.
I was cleaning the bathroom. I thought of nothing,
really, while I watched my hands move.
National Poetry Month Day 7: “Cafe Space” by James Hoch
Café Space
Here comes backwash from apocalypse
gamey as last night’s monastery potluck.
Did you have the goat bleating from the roof
of a floating house, its song as old as warning?