National Poetry Month
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National Poetry Month, Day 1: “Bronze Age” by Shane Book
Shane Book’s collection of poems, Ceiling of Sticks, was the first book chosen by the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. You can check out Poetry Book Club Board member Camille Dungy’s rationale for choosing it here, and you can read the…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
So, did you like our National Poetry Month project? If you missed any of the poems, check them out here. Barbara Jane Reyes has some interesting thoughts on poetic tradition. Virginia Heffernan discusses the way self-publication has lost some of…
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National Poetry Month Extra
Yes, we know the old rhyme “30 days hath September, April, June, and November,” but here at Rumpus Original Poetry, we’re not satisfied with a 30 day National Poetry Month. Poetry deserves 31 days, so we’re creating April 31st, and…
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National Poetry Month: Day 31. “Paper Person” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Paper Person I trace paper’s origins to ancient China, where a eunuch in the Imperial Household collects wasps. He watches them bounce against oiled panes of linen, chew
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Rumpus Original Poems National Poetry Month Lineup
Welcome to National Poetry Month at The Rumpus! We’ll be running new, previously-unpublished poems every day for the month of April, and we’ll be linking all of them here, as they appear. April 1: W. S. DiPiero April 2: Xochiquetzal…
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National Poetry Month: Day 30. From “The Tinajera Notebook” by Forrest Gander
From “The Tinajera Notebook Synthesized with a common helplessness. Fined-down by the exorbitant demand of work, surrounded, inundated with chatter as the zócalo is when grackles descend en masse whirring, wheedling, scrawking. For us, every hour has become that hour…
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National Poetry Month: Day 29. “Cain” by Jericho Brown
Cain First, a conversation. Now, A volcano. Call me quick Tempered vegan. Turnip Lover. Fruit licker. Mound
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National Poetry Month: Day 28. “How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance” by Nick Lantz
How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance You and I fit together like two millstones, and oh the music we make of grist, going round and round the same
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National Poetry Month: Day 27. “i.e.” by Stacy Kidd
i.e. The window, say the window shattering on a arm Say any given home/ river/ one town over/ loose stone Let loose [of course, towns grow like shattering Say prove the towns or answer with –Stacy Kidd Stacy Kidd is completing a…
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National Poetry Month: Day 26. “Patato y Totico play ‘Ya Yo E’” by Patricia Spears Jones
Patato y Totico play “Ya Yo E” In this short film, a young man in Havana Carries two buckets of water Up and down three flights of stairs Three times each day.
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National Poetry Month: Day 25. “Errata” by Randall Mann
Errata I’m a little punchy after all the lines and torture-lite. And since this isn’t glitter underneath my nails, pass me an emery board and the strip brush—