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National Poetry Month Day 12: celeste doaks

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  • April 12, 2017
Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month by running new poems from poets we admire. We feature a different poet each day, and aim to illustrate the variety in voices and styles of poetry being written today.
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The Evolution of a Trigger

  • Whitney Egstad
  • March 27, 2017
Perhaps they are really saying: This will not happen to me. I will be prepared. And, in hoisting that hypothetical gun, they feel they are made safe from the appalling vulnerability of living.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Red Whole

  • Casandra López
  • November 26, 2016
I’ve become an abridged version of myself—made half-done and meager. Made hungry for answers.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tiny Bubbles

  • Martha Bayne
  • July 31, 2016
A bubble is a sphere of privilege, but it also provides the safety to mix up more soapy water and to blow new bubbles to protect what we hold dear.
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Boyz n the Hood, Chi-Raq, and America 2016

  • Argun Ulgen
  • July 14, 2016
And while the faces and nomenclature between these historically discrete agents of change differ, the one governing commonality remains the same: unfettered gun ownership and correlative violence play a pivotal role.
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Crossroads

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • July 13, 2016
In a new poem titled “@ the Crossroads: A Sudden American Poem,” US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reacts to last week’s violence by asking the reader to consider the…
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What the Cameras Show Us: Ourselves

  • Marisa Siegel
  • July 11, 2016
When I decided I needed to write this piece, I spent a lot of time wondering whether I could. Whether I should.
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The Rumpus Interview With Jeremy Earl

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  • July 11, 2016
Jeremy Earl discusses his latest album, City Sun Eater in the River of Light, the fruitful tension of city vs. country, finding beauty in the darkness of today’s world, and the enduring good vibes of the Grateful Dead.
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Philando Castile: A Rumpus Roundup

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 7, 2016
On Wednesday evening, police shot and killed St. Paul Minnesota resident Philando Castile after stopping him for a broken tail light. More than five hundred police shootings have occurred so…
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Unafraid and Proud

  • Liz Wood
  • June 16, 2016
In the wake of the Orlando tragedy, questions have been raised about the ability of the gay dance scene to overcome the fear bred by such senseless, yet targeted, violence.…
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Total Noise and Complete Saturation

  • Christine Gosnay
  • April 8, 2016
For as long as I can remember I’ve been interested, in a clinical way, in silence.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Christina Stoddard

  • Renee Simms
  • February 27, 2016
These are things we don’t talk about and I’m here to talk about them. You will either come along with me on that—or not.
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