The Song and the Silence: Talking with Shin Yu Pai
Shin Yu Pai discusses her new book, ENSŌ.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Arriel Vinson
When I sleep poorest, / I’m reminded of him.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erin Belieu
Erin Belieu discusses her new collection, COME-HITHER HONEYCOMB.
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Why We Chose Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s Water I Won’t Touch for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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Stitching the Sea Together: A Conversation with Kathryn Smith
Kathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Christine Gosnay
What does it mean to live like this, // expressing nothing that eats the mind?
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The Light Endures: 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins
Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
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To Move Forward but Not Forget: Talking with Chloe Yelena Miller
Chloe Yelena Miller discusses her debut full-length poetry collection, VIABLE.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Sage Ravenwood
Nearby / a bucket to drown infested memory banks.
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Doublethink: A Conversation with Cortney Lamar Charleston
Cortney Lamar Charleston discusses his new poetry collection, DOPPELGANGBANGER.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joshua Burton
what can stretch from the dead to living as an unbroken line break?
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sheila Squillante
“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Aline Mello
They command and you obey. / You hope for a way in.
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Not Looking Away: The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler
But look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Robin Gow
“I always knew I wanted to write a queer saint holy book.”
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with torrin greathouse
torrin a. greathouse discusses her debut collection, WOUND FROM THE MOUTH OF A WOUND.
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A Language for Extinction: Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds
And if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
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To Account for a Life: Talking with Jameson Fitzpatrick
Jameson Fitzpatrick discusses their debut full-length poetry collection, PRICKS IN THE TAPESTRY.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Cameron Quan Louie
It’s tricky to apologize for certain things.
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The Violent and the Sensual: original kink by Jubi Arriola-Headley
Violence can be turned around, turned into pleasure, or an act of freedom, or an act of defiance.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kelli Russell Agodon
I listen, until all the sunflowers have been put to bed.
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In and of the Wreck: Together in a Sudden Strangeness
In its imagery and mood, the collection feels distinctly April.
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Out-of-Body Recognition: A Conversation with JinJin Xu
JinJin Xu discusses her debut chapbook, THERE IS STILL SINGING IN THE AFTERLIFE.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Akuchie
Think of a cry that lactates danger.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kimberly Grey
Kimberly Grey discusses her new collection, SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Robin Gow
I’m here to suggest you hold your eyelid still / for the needle.
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What Am I Fighting For?: A Conversation with Deborah A. Miranda
Deborah A. Miranda discusses her new collection of poetry, ALTAR FOR BROKEN THINGS.
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The Worlds We Inhabit: Home: New Arabic Poems
These writers expand the meaning of the word home by virtue of their lives and their writing.
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Misery Loves Company: A Conversation with Sarah J. Sloat
Sarah J. Sloat discusses her new collection of erasure poetry, HOTEL ALMIGHTY.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Cate Lycurgus
un-clutch my chest // it’s so stuck // Lord shift me so // I love this
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