From the Archive: Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Raymond Antrobus
On screen, I’m peering up a faintly lit staircase and all goes grainy.
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...moreTo speak of the shame is to speak of him / and his bed of lichen and his green / ribbon fastened around my throat.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreI thought / you had grown angry with me but turns out / you were just lazy.
...moreit’s dark there, and wet, and time is closing in
...moreyou wake up early / & do me no good.
...moreNo human attempt / to erase [pain] is successful
...moreKate Baer discusses her new poetry collection, HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL.
...moreCynthia Dewi Oka discusses her new collection, FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreI miss space, when I’m not / reading about it
...moreJeri Frederickson discusses her debut collection, YOU ARE NOT LOST.
...moreMetaphor can make life more bearable, meaningful, or simply comprehensible.
...more“…each month I embrace a kind of death within my womb that offers me a life I can live with.”
...moreThe story thrummed its bruise open and never stopped
...moreCombine multiple ingredients in a single stanza-bowl.
...moreThe ancient sapien instinct: love is an approximation to danger.
...moreThomas Hitoshi Pruiksma discusses his forthcoming translation of THE KURAL.
...moreComposition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.
...moreWhat we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
...moreSculpture—a body tearing into a body.
...moreSteven Reigns discusses his newest poetry collection, A QUILT FOR DAVID.
...moreAmanda Moore discusses her debut collection, REQUEENING.
...moreTo be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
...moreI guess we’ll never know // if God is for or against us.
...moreTyler Barton discusses his new story collection, ETERNAL NIGHT AT THE NATURE MUSEUM.
...moreStacey Waite talks about her poetry collections BUTCH GEOGRAPHY and THE LAKE HAS NO SAINT.
...moreSo, earthquake as a god, // creatures as determined judges.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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