Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Mason J.
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Poetry
A Holiday in Hell: Lauren Tivey’s Moroccan Holiday
If you’re going to Hell, bring a good guide.
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How Hunger Changes a House: A Conversation with Lauren Camp
Lauren Camp discusses her new poetry collection, TOOK HOUSE.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Molly Spencer
Molly Spencer discusses her new collection, HINGE.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Kay Ulanday Barrett
someone thought to open up / the sharp thing / rename it meal
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: syan jay
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Documenting Existence: Deed by Justin Wymer
Wymer is grappling with survival, with the cost of the duplicity of identity.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Emma Brown Sanders
you are not what / you were born to
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Revisiting and Reinventing the Body: A Conversation with Destiny O. Birdsong
Destiny O. Birdsong discusses her debut poetry collection, NEGOTIATIONS.
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Rumpus Poetry Reviews, Reimagined
Meet our new poetry reviews editors!
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Autumn White Eyes
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Still Wouldst Thou Sing: Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal
Figures from antiquity—those masks of learned, privileged poets—are rendered utterly contemporary, down to earth.
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So That We May Move Forward: A Conversation with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello discusses her debut poetry collection, HOUR OF THE OX.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Lark Omura
The East Coast. I try out the shapes of the words with my mouth.
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Out of What Remains: Talking with Jacinta V. White
Jacinta V. White discusses her collection of poetry, RESURRECTING THE BONES.
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On Relic and Recovery: A Conversation with Kimiko Hahn
Poet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Cuauhtémoc Peranda
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Wistful Intimacies: Homie by Danez Smith
Could I be one of Smith’s homies? I would like to be.
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The Hope of Time: Talking with Judith H. Montgomery
Judith H. Montgomery discusses her latest poetry collection, MERCY.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sarah M. Sala
“A poem is like a vision test—its vision is either clear or it’s not.”
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Sadia Hassan
God, when you raise the dead, / raise him last.
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What We Need: Juan Felipe Herrera, Maw Shein Win, and John Freeman
Barbara Berman reviews Every Day We Get More Illegal, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, and The Park.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Monica Prince
our future / will be temporary, on this temporal / planet
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Vijay Seshadri
Vijay Seshadri discusses his new collection, THAT WAS NOW, THIS IS THEN.
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Any Moment Is a Door: Nadia Colburn’s The High Shelf
Again, the red door stands open, allowing the world to enter.
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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Rosanna Warren
“Any good poem has form and acts out its meanings in form.”
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by He Xiang
What happens now can end you.
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Beloved Names and Incantatory Powers: heidi andrea restrepo rhodes’s The Inheritance of Haunting
And so it is an exorcism, yes, but also a song.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joumana Altallal
The metal of the body, the city’s sudden chill.
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The Sound of Beginning: Birthright by George Abraham
These poems present a challenge to the typically imposed strictures of ownership, narrative, and solution.
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