Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: dg nanouk okpik
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Why I Chose Sally Wen Mao’s Oculus for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Here’s what we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Jake Skeets
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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The Voice Is a Social Construct: Talking with Kristina Marie Darling
Poet Kristina Marie Darling discusses the literary life, collaborative writing, and the power of experimental forms.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Laura Da’
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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An Important Book: Inheriting the War edited by Laren McClung
There is no escape from the cradle of this shame.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Diane Seuss
Tragic spectacle my realm. I its ruthless queen.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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A Thin-Bladed Grace: Kristin Chang’s Past Lives, Future Bodies
Each luminous metaphor lays claim over sadness or violence, remaking it.
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Complicating Narratives: A Conversation with Bushra Rehman
Bushra Rehman discusses her new poetry collection, MARIANNA’S BEAUTY SALON.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kyle Dargan
Kyle Dargan discusses his new collection, ANAGNORISIS.
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Personal to Universal: Robin Becker’s The Black Bear Inside Me
Becker stands firmly on the shoulder of earlier lesbian-feminist poets while inhabiting and describing our current era of new challenges and old shibboleths.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Andrés Cerpa
I have stood above the labyrinth / & touched what is not there
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Honest Work with Language: Talking with Berta García Faet
Berta García Faet talks with her translator about THE ELIGIBLE AGE.
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New-Old, Old-New: Erica Dawson’s When Rap Spoke Straight to God
Dawson plays with many tropes—light and dark, the spiritual vs. the corporeal—while questioning the everyday myths that surround us.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Whitman Notebook: Summer Grass
Whatever is undiscovered in “Song of Myself” is in the soil.
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Making a Nest within a Book: Kevin McLellan’s Ornitheology
In my reading, Ornitheology turns out to be a book of psalms.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joy Priest
Whole ecosystems, / the country’s fauna, built through / our long blood.
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Above All, Time: A Conversation with Beth Bachmann
Poet Beth Bachmann discusses her new collection, CEASE.
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Hard-Earned, Essential Grace: Anaphora by Kevin Goodan
No elegy is an island and this elegy is no exception.
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We Are Natural Creatures: Talking with Karen Solie
“At the limit of language we meet our mortality.”
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with José Olivarez
José Olivarez discusses his debut collection, CITIZEN ILLEGAL.
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Terrible Beauty: Diane Seuss’s Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
…in every piece in the collection, Seuss reminds us that so much depends upon noticing.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Dena Rash Guzman
What is the sound a witch makes / when she sinks? There is no word for that.
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The Rumpus Seeks Poetry Readers!
Rumpus Original Poetry is looking for a team of readers.
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Every Moment Is a Poem: A Conversation with with Ailey O’Toole
Ailey O’Toole discusses her forthcoming chapbook, GRIEF, AND WHAT COMES AFTER.
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Form as Container: Samantha Zighelboim’s The Fat Sonnets
Zighelboim almost has to break the form into pieces in order to speak; a fourteen-word poem is really only the echo of a sonnet.
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Why I Chose Natasha Trethewey’s Monument for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Here’s what we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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Three Strong Women: Lisa Rosenberg, Maw Shein Win, and Libby Burton
Welcome all three of these books with enthusiasm for what they do, and with shared possibilities for the ”craved world.”
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Nate Marshall
there’s no word for us / except our names & what is / a secret if i say it / in front of company?
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