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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: syan jay

  • syan jay
  • November 21, 2020
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Emma Brown Sanders

  • Emma Brown Sanders
  • November 19, 2020
you are not what / you were born to
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Lark Omura

  • Lark Omura
  • November 12, 2020
The East Coast. I try out the shapes of the words with my mouth.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Cuauhtémoc Peranda

  • Cuauhtémoc Peranda
  • November 7, 2020
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Sadia Hassan

  • Sadia Hassan
  • November 5, 2020
God, when you raise the dead, / raise him last.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Monica Prince

  • Monica Prince
  • October 29, 2020
our future / will be temporary, on this temporal / planet
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by He Xiang

  • He Xiang
  • October 22, 2020
What happens now can end you.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joumana Altallal

  • Joumana Altallal
  • October 15, 2020
The metal of the body, the city’s sudden chill.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Visual Poems by David Joez Villaverde

  • David Joez Villaverde
  • October 8, 2020
Can this really still be my dream?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Rae Winkelstein

  • Rae Winkelstein
  • September 24, 2020
it’s unclear if you love him or love to ache.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Mlekoday

  • Michael Mlekoday
  • September 17, 2020
Where am I going? Is all this talk / of God and grandmothers / merely escape?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Alison C. Rollins

  • Alison C. Rollins
  • September 10, 2020
I am a woman. Undone, / A woman is a man.
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