National Poetry Month
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Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #1: Poetry That Moves Like a City Street
I’m spending National Poetry Month at the Millay Colony, former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My colleague and friend, poet and writer Jen Fitzgerald, will be writing the Mixtape column this month—and we are all lucky for it. Enjoy…
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National Poetry Month Day 6: Wendy Chin-Tanner
AFTER LIKUNT DANIEL AILIN Sculpture by Kehinde Wiley, 2013
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National Poetry Month Day 5: Tiffany Midge
Tweets as Assigned Text for a Native American Studies Course Selected Tweets of @TiffanyMidge
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, National Poetry Month at The Rumpus continues with Paula Bohince’s “The Flint River” and Adam McGovern’s “Perseid meteors, 2015.” Meanwhile, the inimitable Brandon Hicks illustrates the exhaustive contents of his 2005 Saturn Ion. Then, in the eighth installment of The Conversation, Jayson…
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National Poetry Month Day 3: Adam McGovern
Perseid meteors, 2015 I went to dig for falling stars alone in a shadowed field
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The Conversation: Jayson Smith and A. H. Jerriod Avant
My responsibility is to not be negligent and cause unnecessary harm. To a listener or reader. My allegiance is only to truth.
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National Poetry Month Day 2: Paula Bohince
THE FLINT RIVER Like the Lethe, which says Forget, or the one in Egypt, a river will take into itself what is offered: run-offs, toxic
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The Conversation: José Olivarez and Nate Marshall
There are so many spaces in this country where I feel unsafe particularly because of my body.
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National Poetry Month Day 1: Cynthia Cruz
GUIDEBOOKS FOR THE DEAD And the enchantment of children’s hospitals.
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The Conversation: Joshua Bennett and Camonghne Felix
What scares me in the current work is how much I trust the concept, what I’m trying to achieve.
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The Rumpus National Poetry Month Project
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. New poems…