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Holding On and Letting Go: Rebecca Aronson’s Anchor

  • Janice Northerns
  • January 25, 2023
Gravity is what tethers us to the earth and to those we love, but it is also what we are constantly trying to escape. Anchor is about both these states—the holding on and the letting go—and the tension between them.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Janan Alexandra

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  • January 12, 2023
2. In literary Arabic, kaph is used as a prefix to mean like or as or as though / 3. If kaph is a hand that means like or as or as though, then kaph is a simile / 4. Simile is a hand touching two places at once, a hand bringing together / two far away things, making a transfer (metaphor)
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Another Oracle: Lynn Xu’s Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Light

  • S. Brook Corfman
  • January 11, 2023
Almost ten years have passed since Lynn Xu’s debut, the luminous Debts & Lessons, introduced us to her oracle. “Let it not be for what you write, the world /…
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Rumpus Original Poetry: 3 Poems by Katie Farris

  • Katie Farris
  • January 5, 2023
Why bother closing a door / when everyone demands it open?
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RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: UPWARD MOBILITY by José Olivarez

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  • January 4, 2023
An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club's February selection, PROMISES OF GOLD by José Olivarez
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The Sense of Words: Reverse Engineer by Kate Colby

  • Randall Potts
  • December 28, 2022
. . . language is duplicitous. To be broken is perhaps to be part of a process (or a metaphor for life), where to bend (and survive) also leads to being broken. In this context, the word “broken” in “Reverse Engineer” might well point to a hard-won success.
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A World Where We Are Known and Loved: Shelley Wong’s As She Appears

  • Alice Liang
  • December 14, 2022
to be seen is not the same thing as being known
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A Rumpus Poetry Gift Guide

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  • December 8, 2022
Poetry for everyone
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RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: GARDEN by Gabrielle Bates

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  • December 7, 2022
An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club's January selection, JUDAS GOAT by Gabrielle Bates forthcoming from Tin House Books on January 24, 2023
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The Last Book

  • Kimberly Johnson
  • November 29, 2022
The poet goes to the supermarket for peanut butter. The poet cleans the toilet. The poet responds to emails.
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From the Archive: The Rumpus Inaugural Poems: Eve L. Ewing

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  • November 10, 2022
Each day from January 7 to January 20, Rumpus Original Poems will feature poetry written in response to the coming presidential inauguration. Today’s poems are from Eve L. Ewing.
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RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT by Courtney Faye Taylor

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  • November 2, 2022
An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club's December selection, CONCENTRATE by Courtney Faye Taylor from Graywolf Press
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