National Poetry Month Day 5: Kwame Opoku-Duku
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: 瞑目/Close Eye by Paisley Rekdal
Our May 2023 Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection is Paisley Rekdal's West: A Translation
Loving the questions: Religion and poetry with Jennifer Michael Hecht
Thinking in terms of the poetry of your life is about noticing that you are one of the sentient beings in a universe with billions of galaxies, and your experience is the universe knowing itself and it is weird and messy and painful but it matters.
National Poetry Month Day 4: Kenzie Allen
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
The Myriad Conflagrations of our Times: Chloe N. Clark’s Patterns of Orbit
In this collection, the reader can slipstream from space shuttle to submarine, from Grimm to Goldilocks to Charybdis, because a cautionary tale that’s never heeded is never out of date . . .
From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Em
For her twenty-first birthday, Kiều’s younger siblings set fire to her bed.
National Poetry Month Day 3: Rajiv Mohabir
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
The Spiritual Fact of Our Oneness: A Conversation with Charif Shanahan
“The world is literally and figuratively on fire. Of all the things we could do with our lives, why write poems?”
National Poetry Month Day 2: Virginia Konchan
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 1: Su Hwang
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
RUMPUS BOOK CLUB EXCERPT from THE LOST JOURNALS OF SACAJEWEA by DEBRA MAGPIE EARLING
Our May 2023 Rumpus Book Club selection is Debra Magpie Earling's The Lost Journals of Sacajewea.
Strength and Feeling in Motion: A conversation with Henri Cole about Gravity and Center
Horses are a nice metaphor for the sonnet’s strength and feeling in motion. Beauty and violent power come together in an animal form. When I write, I have the feeling of being a rider. As the poem gallops forward, I am knocked about.