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National Poetry Month Day 13: Leila Chatti

April 13th, 2019

The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new poems daily from poets we admire, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2019

By The Rumpus

March 22nd, 2019

A selection of AWP 2019 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!

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Notable NYC: 2/16–2/22

By Ian MacAllen

February 16th, 2019

Literary events in and around NYC this week!

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Shara Lessley

By The Rumpus Book Club

April 24th, 2018

Shara Lessley discusses her new collection, The Explosive Expert’s Wife, the task of humanizing those we might dismiss as monsters, and writing toward hope.

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First, Leila Aboulela examines time and its tricks in “Pinpricks” for the Saturday Rumpus Essay. And this weekend, we kicked off our Rumpus Inaugural Poems project with Leila Chatti’s eulogy for every mother’s lost country in “Motherland,” and Kaveh Akbar’s surreal images of reconstructionism in “Poem to a Conqueror.” Meanwhile, Brandon Hicks shares a very funny new comic, […]

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The Rumpus Inaugural Poems: Leila Chatti

By Rumpus Original Poems

January 7th, 2017

Each day from January 7 to January 20, Rumpus Original Poems will feature poetry written in response to the coming presidential inauguration. Today’s poem is from Leila Chatti.

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The Rumpus Inaugural Poems

By Rumpus Original Poems

January 6th, 2017

Official inaugural poems are a strange beast. There have only been five of them and the one we recognize as the first, Robert Frost’s “The Gift Outright,” wasn’t composed for President Kennedy’s inauguration. Frost recited it when the sun’s glare off the snow made the poem he’d written, “Dedication,” impossible to read. But perhaps the […]

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