National Poetry Month Day 1: Kenji C. Liu
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
Poems
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Justin Rovillos Monson
Letter / with your body with my body blooming inside.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Ashley M. Jones
look, my dark love, at your hands. see what they can’t grasp when you let me go?
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Gabriel Cortez
what good is a jersey if it won't carry a small sun into orbit?
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jaz Sufi
Cackle in the witch dark. Glitter bloom the blood.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by C.T. Salazar
This is the gospel of barking dogs. Saint / Augustine licking his paw.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Brandon Amico
One in ten Americans will not read this poem.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Erin Adair-Hodges
Unzip me from this winter, come / unbog what’s left of this flesh.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Monica Sok
He pretends he cannot be seen. / I pretend I cannot find him.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Dina Paulson-McEwen
If there were a place with a window / to all places, it would be Santa Fe.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Hussain Ahmed
the girl does not want her child to inherit any of her gowns // so she set herself on fire.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Elizabeth Robinson
A story consists in how long the creature can hold it all in, the lung of the thing.