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National Poetry Month Day 27: Brandy Nālani McDougall
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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RUMPUS BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: THIS WARM AND BREATHING THING by JENNIFER FLISS
Our June 2023 Rumpus Book Club selection is Jennifer Fliss’s As If She Had a Say. Read an excerpt and subscribe by May 15 to the Book Club to receive this title and an invitation to an exclusive conversation with…
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National Poetry Month Day 26: Aaron Coleman
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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the strange, the surprising, the slightly off-center: A Rumpus Conversation with J. Bailey Hutchinson
part of my fixation with textured and torqued language . . . stems from growing up in the South, where figurative language isn’t limited to formal literary spaces.
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National Poetry Month Day 25: Aerik Francis
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Six Micro Stories
Our eager fingernails fill with dust as we dream of sweetness on our tongues.
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National Poetry Month Day 24: Ariana Benson
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Not every queer story needs to be a coming out story: An Interview with Miah Jeffra
Don’t we often write about what we struggle to understand?
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National Poetry Month Day 23: Porsha Olayiwola
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 22: Sam Ross
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Sketch Book Reviews: Poetry Unbound
I think when things in the world seem particularly bad/sad/awful, poetry can add a little light
