Rumpus Original
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I Freed Myself from Needing to Make Sense: A Conversation with Leila Chatti
I’ve learned by now my mind is smarter than I am, than my conscious self—it’s doing all sorts of things in there, unbeknownst to me. I often tell my students that the poem knows better than I do, and so…
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National Poetry Month Day 12: Jenny Johnson
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Waking Up at the Wake: Desire, Death, and Disruption in A Shiver in the Leaves
When I consider a shiver in the leaves, my mind fares in two directions: One is back to my first-time experience with psilocybin, shocked at how the fig leaves hung as if shivering . . . and the other is…
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Terra Incognita
At 30, I am about to bisect the difference in age between my mother and mother’s mother when they gave birth.
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National Poetry Month Day 11: Denice Frohman
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Critical Attachment to Geniuses: Ada Calhoun’s Also A Poet
. . . how to simultaneously develop a deep curiosity about cultural icons and maintain a critical distance from them . . .
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Any Good Wife
Airong’s voice was stern, matter-of-fact. “I’m pregnant.”
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National Poetry Month Day 10: Nathalie Handal
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Hope and Rapture in the Anthropocene: A conversation with Julie Carrick Dalton
. . . fall in love with honey bees, or fall in love with the forest . . .
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National Poetry Month Day 9: Jon Sands
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 8: Natasha Rao
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 7: Ruben Quesada
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.