National Poetry Month Day 9: Jon Sands
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 8: Natasha Rao
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 7: Ruben Quesada
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 6: Ally Ang
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 5: Kwame Opoku-Duku
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: 瞑目/Close Eye by Paisley Rekdal
Our May 2023 Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection is Paisley Rekdal's West: A Translation
Loving the questions: Religion and poetry with Jennifer Michael Hecht
Thinking in terms of the poetry of your life is about noticing that you are one of the sentient beings in a universe with billions of galaxies, and your experience is the universe knowing itself and it is weird and messy and painful but it matters.
National Poetry Month Day 4: Kenzie Allen
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
The Myriad Conflagrations of our Times: Chloe N. Clark’s Patterns of Orbit
In this collection, the reader can slipstream from space shuttle to submarine, from Grimm to Goldilocks to Charybdis, because a cautionary tale that’s never heeded is never out of date . . .
From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Em
For her twenty-first birthday, Kiều’s younger siblings set fire to her bed.
National Poetry Month Day 3: Rajiv Mohabir
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
The Spiritual Fact of Our Oneness: A Conversation with Charif Shanahan
“The world is literally and figuratively on fire. Of all the things we could do with our lives, why write poems?”