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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.

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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.

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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Em

For her twenty-first birthday, Kiều’s younger siblings set fire to her bed.

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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.

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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?”

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National Poetry Month Day 2: Virginia Konchan

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 1: Su Hwang

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: Curious

It is a brutal awakening.

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Voices on Addiction: Washed Clean

That’s when I noticed John the Baptist standing chest-high in the middle of the narrow, easy-moving river.

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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Todd McKinney

Of course, it’d be wonderful to have / the Southern Hemisphere back.

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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Even the Moon

When you finished, several minutes passed before we spoke. You dipped a finger in a pool of candle wax. How could I know this was the only real secret you’d ever kept?

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