National Poetry Month Day 6: Honorée Jeffers
According to the Testimony to the Grand Jury of Newport, Rhode Island by the Sailor John Cranston, After Throwing a Coromantee Woman Into the Sea, James DeWolf, the Captain of the Slave Ship…
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National Poetry Month Day 5: “Innocence: A Memoir” by Kathleen Ossip
Innocence: A Memoir All souls grow roughly, out of careless errors. This month brings two things: the moon and you, both at my breasts.
National Poetry Month Day 4: “Both/Both” by Oliver Bendorf
BOTH/BOTH “We were just kids.” –Patti Smith I’m asking if she wants dumbbells on the top or sort of smack down
National Poetry Month Day 2: “Pending Approval for Suicide Barriers on the Golden Gate Bridge, Questions for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors” by D. Gilson
Pending Approval for Suicide Barriers on the Golden Gate Bridge, Questions for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Chairman, can you update us on fog? Chairman, how many nets can…
National Poetry Month Day 1: “To Proceed, You Must First Understand” by Barbara Jane Reyes
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2015! For the last six years, we here at The Rumpus have run a new poem every day in April (and often into May) to…
National Poetry Month Day 30: “Jubilate Patro” by Brian Spears
Jubilate Patro For I will consider my father SamFor he praises God in his mumbles and circular storiesFor his left arm is crooked to remind him of original sinFor half…
National Poetry Month Day 29: “City of Eternal Spring” by Afaa M. Weaver
City of Eternal Spring My mind rises up as the silos of interchanges, streams, passages of myself in floating layers so nothing can connect, and I dream emptiness on ships…
National Poetry Month Day 28: from “Bombyonder” by Reb Livingston
from Bombyonder Without an imaginary world, without a proper backpack, without my little pink orb, without an old tablet’s commandments, without a hair dryer, empty hands, empty birdcage obscured by…
National Poetry Month Day 27: “Prodigal Electrons Return to Shine” by Matthew Zapruder
Prodigal Electrons Return to Shine is the name of the movie she wants to see, the first the daughter of a famous director whose plots to her always seemed designed…
National Poetry Month Day 26: “Everything Twice” by Rae Gouirand
Everything Twice Pinkened quince with potatoes, cold for breakfast. Stones by the door I’ve pocketed the last year. Too bright today to see the road. One blue for the sky,…
National Poetry Month Day 25: “Rogue Benediction” by Wendy C. Ortiz
Rogue Benediction And we entered the Valley of the Rogue. And we slowed to a crawl. The night’s envelope sealed us in. After several hours, cars deep on the interstate,…