Poetry
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This Week in Books: The Red Hijab
Welcome to This Week in Books, a new Rumpus column that will highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books are more important than ever. As we head into a Trump presidency, we’re seeing attacks on basic constitutional rights, increased…
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No More Milk by Karen Craigo
Vivian Wagner reviews Karen Craigo’s No More Milk today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet by Terese Svoboda
Julie Enszer reviews Terese Svoboda’s Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Gregory Pardlo
Poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo discusses the reverence for poetry found in other cultures, how he strings a book together, and the future of American poetry in light of our national crisis.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Shane McCrae
I think that the moment we’re living in offers the best opportunity we’ve had in a long time in that a lot of things having to do with identity politics are being talked about in poems.
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Language Lesson and Surveillance by Ashaki M. Jackson
Kenji Liu reviews Ashaki M. Jackson’s Language Lesson and Surveillance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 6): “To Elsie”
Now the battle is joined. I will prosecute my part of it as a writer till the last dog dies…
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Banana Palace by Dana Levin
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Dana Levin’s Banana Palace today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Where were you when the world broke?
Not in your echoing womb, to scream at you across your fields to wake up, not part of your denial that Earth is burning, dehydrated, suffocating on itself— I stood in a blue state while you bled the red of…


