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Above All, Time: A Conversation with Beth Bachmann

  • Blas Falconer and Helena Mesa
  • October 10, 2018
Poet Beth Bachmann discusses her new collection, CEASE.
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Every Moment Is a Poem: A Conversation with with Ailey O’Toole

  • Tianna G. Hansen
  • September 17, 2018
Ailey O’Toole discusses her forthcoming chapbook, GRIEF, AND WHAT COMES AFTER.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Shira Erlichman

  • Shira Erlichman
  • August 23, 2018
The forest grew around me. Trees / on streets, walking or waiting.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Wasson

  • Michael Wasson
  • August 9, 2018
now tell me / we’ll make it // to the end / of our unanswerable lives
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Lost in Google Translation

  • Brandon Hicks
  • August 5, 2018
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Poet-Cosmologist: A Conversation with Bruce Beasley

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • July 27, 2018
"The cusp of errand and awe is where poetry always is for me."
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Voices on Addiction: Four Poems by Nick Flynn

  • Nick Flynn
  • July 24, 2018
Behind DOOR NUMBER ONE / is a hammer, to break the wings off angels.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kristin Chang

  • K-Ming Chang
  • July 19, 2018
Like any good wick // I wear a gown of wax.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by José Olivarez

  • José Olivarez
  • July 5, 2018
is it loyalty that keeps us / from tossing what’s not useful?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jennifer Givhan

  • Jennifer Givhan
  • May 17, 2018
Good thing we hadn’t held the chrysalid funeral yet. The two butterflies emerged. Damaged wings but reborn.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Sumita Chakraborty

  • Sumita Chakraborty
  • May 3, 2018
I have not been able to build the etymology of love. / The word, in its weight, is an eclipse.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems from Erica Wright

  • Erica Wright
  • April 5, 2018
Don’t say gun next to children. // What gun? What children? / The only ones here are invisible.
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