Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Cameron Quan Louie
It’s tricky to apologize for certain things.
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Rumpus Original Poems
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kelli Russell Agodon
I listen, until all the sunflowers have been put to bed.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Akuchie
Think of a cry that lactates danger.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Robin Gow
I’m here to suggest you hold your eyelid still / for the needle.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Cate Lycurgus
un-clutch my chest // it’s so stuck // Lord shift me so // I love this
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Amorak Huey
The day rises. The other worlds burn.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jennifer Perrine
And then, instead, I told him I wanted / to go.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Mason J.
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Kay Ulanday Barrett
someone thought to open up / the sharp thing / rename it meal
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: syan jay
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Emma Brown Sanders
you are not what / you were born to
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Lark Omura
The East Coast. I try out the shapes of the words with my mouth.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Cuauhtémoc Peranda
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Sadia Hassan
God, when you raise the dead, / raise him last.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Monica Prince
our future / will be temporary, on this temporal / planet
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by He Xiang
What happens now can end you.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joumana Altallal
The metal of the body, the city’s sudden chill.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Visual Poems by David Joez Villaverde
Can this really still be my dream?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Rae Winkelstein
it’s unclear if you love him or love to ache.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Mlekoday
Where am I going? Is all this talk / of God and grandmothers / merely escape?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Alison C. Rollins
I am a woman. Undone, / A woman is a man.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Anna Meister
Wade with me through this gunk / because you have before.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Ojo Taiye
i’m afraid of the history i come from & i’m afraid of my failing tongue
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Aline Dolinh
I think I am the same sort of animal. I am trying so hard to be kind.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Joanna Fuhrman
Outside, a tidal wave of strangers tried to remake the narrative.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jacqui Germain
How dare the / fire want a thing and then eat it whole
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz
The palm tree stood on the beach and laughed at the sea.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jasmine V. Bailey
It was good to wake up to your insomnia.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Delano Burrowes
I wanted to give you one more chance to make me exist.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Threa Almontaser
I’m dream-ghost, phantasmal, falling through floors from sighing.
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