Poetry
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Why I Chose Cameron Awkward-Rich’s Dispatch for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Uma Menon
instead you make aliens out of people // on your own world
Uncomfortable Truths: The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan
Making it to thirty seems unimaginable, yet it happens anyway.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by H. Melt
forgive me and I’ll forgive you / for forcing me into a skirt
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib discusses his new collection, A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER.
A Window with Reality Through It: Everything Here by Billie Swift
Swift’s shuffled lines create haunting, breathtaking possibilities.
Paying It Forward: A Conversation with Lawrence Schimel
Writer, translator, editor, and publisher Lawrence Schimel talks about his work in the literary world.
The Last Book I Loved: Re-reading Dana Levin’s Banana Palace in 2019
In such a context, Dana Levin’s particular apocalypses deserve another look.
Art, Action, and Redaction: A Conversation with Isobel O’Hare
Isobel O’Hare discusses her debut full-length collection, ALL THIS CAN BE YOURS.
The (Pleasurable) Anxiety of (Aesthetic) Influence: Bill Berkson’s A Frank O’Hara Notebook
Long after O’Hara died, O’Hara was still influencing, shaping, editing, Berkson.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Marlin M. Jenkins
let the echo pulse until the sound can’t hold these crooked scared hands