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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kyle Dacuyan

  • Kyle Dacuyan
  • May 5, 2022
      Casual amnesia Sunday I saw several people crying at the airport. One man on his phone begging the person on the other line to please stop calling…
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So Much At Risk: Talking with Christopher Soto

  • Diane Gottlieb
  • May 4, 2022
If I am audacious enough to imagine [my] reader, then I imagine this is a person who has never had the option to look away.
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Perfectly Made and Frighteningly Fragile: This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris

  • Chaya Nautiyal Murali
  • May 3, 2022
We must learn to see the divine even in our sorrow
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The Present in Its Most Vivid Colors: A Conversation with Ben Shattuck

  • Barrett Bowlin
  • May 2, 2022
What does a growth of new grass on a hillside in spring make you feel? Is it a mixture of nostalgia and hope? Or what does a distant mountain range wreathed in a crown of clouds make you feel?
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National Poetry Monday Day 30: Emily Jungmin Yoon

  • Emily Jungmin Yoon
  • April 30, 2022
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 29: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar

  • Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
  • April 29, 2022
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National Poetry Month Day 28: Antonio De Jesús López

  • Antonio De Jesús López
  • April 28, 2022
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Clock time has really lost all meaning: An interview with Jos Charles

  • Aileen Keown Vaux
  • April 27, 2022
Some work must be done up very close.
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“Do You Hearest?”: A Review of Ova Completa by Susana Thénon, tr. Rebekah Smith

  • Kristin Dykstra
  • April 27, 2022
Where are you, Susana Thénon?—which I think might mean: How does Thénon achieve something more than evasion and isolation with all of this wandering around? Does she land somewhere?—“In a room where if I am I’m not or I am who cares”
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National Poetry Month Day 27: Andrea Abi-Karam

  • Andrea Abi-Karam
  • April 27, 2022
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No Way to Avoid Things Mattering: A Dream Life by Claire Messud

  • Mikaela Dery
  • April 26, 2022
The placement of a marquee tent at a party or the tension between the caterer and a housekeeper take on outsized importance.
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National Poetry Month Day 26: Ladan Osman

  • Ladan Osman
  • April 26, 2022
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