National Poetry Month Day 8: Arisa White
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 7: Destiny O. Birdsong
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 6: Ben Purkert
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Protocol: Bait/Switch
What is the protocol for dealing with civilians? What is the protocol for dealing with the police?
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National Poetry Month Day 5: Ariel Francisco
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 4: torrin a. greathouse
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 3: Xandria Phillips
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 2: Victoria Chang
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 1: Kenji C. Liu
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Justin Rovillos Monson
Letter / with your body with my body blooming inside.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Ashley M. Jones
look, my dark love, at your hands. see what they can’t grasp when you let me go?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Gabriel Cortez
what good is a jersey if it won’t carry a small sun into orbit?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jaz Sufi
Cackle in the witch dark. Glitter bloom the blood.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by C.T. Salazar
This is the gospel of barking dogs. Saint / Augustine licking his paw.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Brandon Amico
One in ten Americans will not read this poem.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Erin Adair-Hodges
Unzip me from this winter, come / unbog what’s left of this flesh.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Monica Sok
He pretends he cannot be seen. / I pretend I cannot find him.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Dina Paulson-McEwen
If there were a place with a window / to all places, it would be Santa Fe.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Hussain Ahmed
the girl does not want her child to inherit any of her gowns // so she set herself on fire.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Elizabeth Robinson
A story consists in how long the creature can hold it all in, the lung of the thing.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Craig Santos Perez
What is the sound / of no Spam frying?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Seven Visual Poems by Sarah J. Sloat
She spoke for ages one afternoon / about / kneeling.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kary Wayson
Which summer bird makes that wonderful chirp?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Frank Johnson
i run out of words for God & i can’t speak to my demons but / i hear them
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Bronwen Tate
A little bite dissolves. It’s a beginning, / bait.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Bettina Judd
dive— / your back a black sight.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Millissa Kingbird
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Jess Rizkallah
once, / stones in a pocket didn’t mean walking into the sea.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Tyler Dettloff
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Dante Di Stefano
What’s a bright moment to a blind man?
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