Poems
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National Poetry Month 2012 Lineup
So maybe you’re following our National Poetry Month project and you want to know who else is going to be featured. You’re following, right? I mean, sure you get the tweets from Rumpus Poetry and The Rumpus, and you regularly…
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National Poetry Month Day 35: “A Double Sestina on Happiness” by Cathy Park Hong
We decide when National Poetry Month is over. A Double Sestina on Happiness Part 1: I should never be happy, the Samsung Chairman’s eldest daughter Eunhee thought as she picked up a capsleeved dress in Seoul’s only Marni boutique, and…
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National Poetry Month Day 32: “Zoo” by Virginia Konchan
We’re never satisfied with the thirty days that April allots us for National Poetry Month, so we’re extending it a bit. Enjoy! Zoo Unbridled, the sick pony traverses listlessly a circle.
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National Poetry Month Day 31: “Machine Song” by Bruce Snider
We’re never satisfied with just the 30 days that April offers for National Poetry Month, so we’re keeping it going for a little while longer. Machine Song I Xerox what I need to keep (a sheaf of papers, taxes, real…
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National Poetry Month Day 30: From “Sungone Noon” by Christian Wiman
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. From “Sungone Noon” One raised goats;
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National Poetry Month Day 28: “Nine Out of Ten Dentists Agree I Am Not an Octopus” by Gregory Sherl
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. Nine Out of Ten Dentists Agree I Am Not an Octopus I think I am…
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National Poetry Month Day 27: “Barry Bonds on the Witness Stand” by Oscar Bermeo
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. Barry Bonds on the Witness Stand Barry Bonds trial, courtroom blog Day 11
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National Poetry Month Day 26: “14 Fragments/10 Muses [Re:Sonnet #38]” by Ana Božičević
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. 14 Fragments/10 Muses [Re:Sonnet #38] We’re with James Baldwin in a lofty basement room, with…
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National Poetry Month Day 24: “All Is Love” by John Gallaher
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. All Is Love Sorry. I’m wrong. Everyone lives alone. All is not love. All is…
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National Poetry Month Day 23: “While John Berryman Drives In His Orange Chevrolet Through A Minnesota Rainstorm To Lecture On Don Quixote, Sylvia Plath Paints The Beehives of Court Green” by Amy Newman
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. While John Berryman Drives In His Orange Chevrolet Through A Minnesota Rainstorm To Lecture On…
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National Poetry Month Day 22: “Terra Incognita” by David Roderick
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. Terra Incognita Counting scars of gum on the stairs down from the Dome I briefly…
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National Poetry Month Day 21: “Mnemosyne to the Poet” by Rebecca Dunham
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. Mnemosyne to the Poet For you, memory is but an oil lamp to snuff, left…