Read National Poetry Month Poems Poetry Rumpus Original National Poetry Month Day 11: Natalie Shapero Natalie ShaperoApril 11, 2022 Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original FROM THE ARCHIVES: Rumpus Original Fiction: Sabbath Arielle K. JonesFebruary 14, 2022 There’s something about stillness that always comes just before the miracles.Read
Read Essays Rumpus Original Wash Karine HackNovember 16, 2021 I hate the word clean. It’s antiseptic, scrubbed raw; it makes me think of sin and guilt and a God I don’t believe in.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Startling Juxtapositions: Pilot Impostor by James Hannaham Bradley BazzleNovember 12, 2021 Hannaham reserves his most vivifying language for planes and crashes.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Gods Arrive Where We Pay Attention: A Conversation with Avni Vyas Erin HooverOctober 20, 2021 Avni Vyas discusses her debut poetry collection, LITTLE GOD.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews A Transcendent Wilderness: Andrew J. Graff’s Raft of Stars David GrandouillerSeptember 8, 2021 In particular, Graff’s river is numinous. It’s the center of everything.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original The Plane That We Inhabit: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones Jacqueline Allen TrimbleSeptember 7, 2021 Ashley M. Jones discusses her new poetry collection, REPARATIONS NOW!.Read
Read Rumpus Original Malus Domestica Angie RominesJuly 26, 2021 Apples do not grow “true to seed,” meaning that what you put in the ground isn’t always what comes back out of it.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Ways to Love, and Be Loved: Talking with Joy Ladin Julie Marie WadeJune 25, 2021 Joy Ladin discusses the new edition of THE BOOK OF ANNA.Read
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Read Rumpus Original Heat Shaan AminMarch 23, 2021 I feared this ravening thing in myself, in men.Read
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