Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Who’s Your Daddy
An exclusive look at the cover of Arisa White’s forthcoming collection, WHO’S YOUR DADDY.
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Poetry
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Mlekoday
Where am I going? Is all this talk / of God and grandmothers / merely escape?
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The Dead Speak to the Living: Talking with Francisco Aragón
Francisco Aragón discusses his new book, AFTER RUBÉN.
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Gospel That Kicks Up the Dust: Neck of the Woods by Amy Woolard
Tenderness lies between the sharp and the sweet.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Alison C. Rollins
I am a woman. Undone, / A woman is a man.
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Others Would Tell Me Nothing Is Mine: Talking with Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes discusses her new collection, LETTERS TO A YOUNG BROWN GIRL.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Anna Meister
Wade with me through this gunk / because you have before.
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Why We Chose Molly Spencer’s Hinge for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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Building and Building: Talking with Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones discusses her body of work, the future of poetry, and more.
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A Deeper Narrative: Tongo Eisen-Martin’s Heaven Is All Goodbyes
These are not poems to read quickly, but to return to repeatedly.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Ojo Taiye
i’m afraid of the history i come from & i’m afraid of my failing tongue
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Benjamin Garcia
Benjamin Garcia discusses his debut poetry collection, THROWN IN THE THROAT.
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What Could Be: All Its Charms by Keetje Kuipers
The decision to have a child is fraught at the best of times.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #229: Joshua Harmon
“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Aline Dolinh
I think I am the same sort of animal. I am trying so hard to be kind.
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I Had to Go There: Talking with Enzo Silon Surin
Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
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Rites of Passage: Steven Toussaint’s Lay Studies
We are liturgical animals, Toussaint’s poems suggest, designed to satisfy some ultimate desire with worship.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Joanna Fuhrman
Outside, a tidal wave of strangers tried to remake the narrative.
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A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay
Salt—the speaker’s only remains, after she dives into the ocean and sets herself free of the past.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jacqui Germain
How dare the / fire want a thing and then eat it whole
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The Sealey Challenge
The Challenge creates community through ongoing engagement with it.
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Why We Chose Vijay Seshadri’s That Was Now, This Is Then for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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Observations of an Inquisitive Mind: Fruit by Bruce Snider
These are not poems of self-pity. Far from it.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz
The palm tree stood on the beach and laughed at the sea.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Thea Matthews
Thea Matthews discusses her debut poetry collection, UNEARTH [THE FLOWERS].
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Straining Toward “Memory Care”: Victoria Chang’s Obit
For Chang, figurative language proves unsatisfactory when compared to the depth of her grief.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jasmine V. Bailey
It was good to wake up to your insomnia.
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Beyond Anger and Sorrow: On Poetry, Pleasure, Politics, and Offense
A poetry of coalition building: how would that sound?
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Mothers and Daughters: Girl by Veronica Golos
Bodies become something to escape from or leave behind.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Delano Burrowes
I wanted to give you one more chance to make me exist.
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