Read Poetry We Are More We Are More: Two Poems by Nur Turkmani Nur TurkmaniDecember 5, 2024 Some afternoons are soft / this way. We miss them as they are happening. / How did we begin to cry?Read
Read Poetry Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by P. Scott Cunningham P. Scott CunninghamDecember 5, 2024 I love to yuck a yum, if it can be done safely / and in communion with someone I love.Read
Read Poetry Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Hayun Cho Hayun ChoNovember 21, 2024 My task is to open the small Styrofoam containers / of rice, to make sure the woman next to me / can reach what her appetite longs for.Read
Read Poetry Reviews Preparing for Flight: Yaccaira Salvatierra’s Sons of Salt Jamie Lulamae MooreNovember 20, 2024 Salvatierra’s poems embody the spirit of reclamation, reminding us to ask the wind and water to carry us, to remember our potential for flight. Read
Read Poetry We Are More We Are More: Septum Edward SalemNovember 7, 2024 there was no reason / not to get the surgery, I just didn’t want to.Read
Read Poetry Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Anna Lena Phillips Bell Anna Lena Phillips BellNovember 7, 2024 to do: observe this slanted / river wrought in paper, / shadowed tributaries / that end at the page’s end / or seem to, as a listRead
Read Poetry Reviews A Silver Bowl of Stars: Blas Falconer’s Rara Avis Marina KraiskayaNovember 6, 2024 Whether “It’s a [family] story we don’t like / to tell” or the shifting of roles and a meditation on death “In the book we are reading together,” wisdom closes its hand over sentiment.Read
Read Poetry Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Iqra Khan Iqra KhanOctober 24, 2024 here/ my uncle is in service of thirty-three / guava trees/ he asks us to gather what the storm / has coaxed to the groundRead
Read Poetry Reviews A Search for Country and Identity in Ayokunle Falomo’s Autobiomythography Of Timi SanniOctober 16, 2024 It is Falomo’s legacy of rebirth, in rich, outstanding text, that there are things which must burn in order to be birthed anewRead
Read Poetry Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by juj e lepe juj e lepeOctober 10, 2024 Never mind strange dogs / down murder-hornet ridge, water / nipping at your bones; I will find youRead
Read Poetry We Are More We Are More: Three Poems by Marlin M. Jenkins Marlin M. JenkinsOctober 3, 2024 Because sometimes the gravity / of care is too strong for you to walk.Read
Read Poetry Reviews Slant Panes of Light: Emilie Menzel’s The Girl Who Became a Rabbit Gina ThayerOctober 2, 2024 Meaning is fleeting. Meaning is self-made.Read