Poetry
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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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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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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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Disrupting Language Hierarchies: Talking with Judith Santopietro
Judith Santopietro discusses TIAWANAKU. POEMAS DE LA MADRE COQA/POEMS FROM THE MOTHER COQA.
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Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned
In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Threa Almontaser
I’m dream-ghost, phantasmal, falling through floors from sighing.
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Why We Chose Sumita Chakraborty’s Arrow for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!


