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  • National Poetry Month
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National Poetry Month: Roger Reeves

  • Roger Reeves
  • April 2, 2025
Listen—the owl again in the branches above us / Giving up his position despite the war.
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“A black sheet between present and ancestors”: Kiran Bath’s Instructions for Banno

  • Rukan Saif
  • April 2, 2025
It is as if we are falling backward, towards the sky, towards the structural silencing of bannos, and Bath’s words wrap around us like curled balloon string and lead us back toward the ground.
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Contra

  • Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
  • April 1, 2025
I want to explain how they went about injecting the deer with birth control.
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  • National Poetry Month
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National Poetry Month: Naomi Shihab Nye

  • Naomi Shihab Nye
  • April 1, 2025
If someone says something ugly / we don’t have to say it too. We say No.
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The Relentless Impressionism of Immigration: Shubha Sunder’s Optional Practical Training

  • Asya Partan
  • April 1, 2025
Sunder’s impressionistic lens also reveals that, perhaps, only in stepping back from intense initiations into new spaces can we see them clearly.
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An Accidental Daring: A Conversation with Lauren K. Watel

  • Emma Bolden
  • March 31, 2025
I do think that making something out of your fear is a hopeful act, at least on the level of the individual.
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True Believer
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What to Read When You’re a True Believer

  • Jeff Kass
  • March 28, 2025
One thing I always tell my students is, "your story matters," because I want them to believe their observations about themselves and the world around them are worth writing about.
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Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman to lead The Rumpus as magazine’s new owners

  • Alyson Sinclair
  • March 28, 2025
The Rumpus will transition to new ownership under Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, effective May 1, 2025, announced current Publisher Alyson Sinclair.
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We Are More: Five Poems by Jen Siraganian

  • Jen Siraganian
  • March 27, 2025
What if these sandbags were full of candy?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by V. B. Borjen

  • V. B. Borjen
  • March 27, 2025
when we were young & unconcerned / swallowing headlines words & all
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Poetry, Healing, and the Spirit of Survival: A Conversation with Nadia Alexis

  • Leslie-Ann Murray
  • March 26, 2025
My understanding of survival has evolved. I am interested in the idea that we go through a journey of creating ourselves as humans.
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Voices on Addiction: What I Learned About Myself from Watching Intervention

  • Katie C. Reilly
  • March 25, 2025
At one point, I admired her. She acted how I wished I could.
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