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National Poetry Month Day 20: Brynn Saito
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
We Are More: jagadakir, as in fate
i cannot get myself to stay / for the moonrise of anything’s day.
National Poetry Month Day 19: Joseph O. Legaspi
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
The Poem is Second, Living is First: An Interview with Tim Z. Hernandez
Above everything else, people come first.
The Sound of Home: Sonorous Desert by Kim Haines-Eitzen
. . . if we open our ears . . . we might even find ourselves feeling truly home
National Poetry Month Day 18: Kazim Ali
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: The Bad Kind of Puppy
That was when she realized: the ticking was coming from inside herself.
National Poetry Month Day 17: Timothy Liu
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 16: Iliana Rocha
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 15: Cynthia Manick
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
What to Read When You Want to Elevate the Everyday
. . . the high domestic: not high as in refined or exclusive, but high as in the ordinary, accessible thing imagined or presented as worthy of attention and delight.