Resurrection on a daily basis: Exploring The Hurting Kind with Ada Limón
How do we face the world and also love the world? That’s one of the questions of my life, maybe.
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Join NOW!How do we face the world and also love the world? That’s one of the questions of my life, maybe.
...more& yes, my family did raise me right. Yes, / they cleaned their bones & cracked them clean / open to suck. Would fight over cartilage & knuckle/Sip the marrow’s nectar from urn. .
...moreOn screen, I’m peering up a faintly lit staircase and all goes grainy.
...moreYou might gasp. You might gasp and your heart slips out. You whisper and let red willows drift toward the river.
...moreIf I am audacious enough to imagine [my] reader, then I imagine this is a person who has never had the option to look away.
...moreA review of BOOMERANG/BUMERÁN, a bilingual poetry collection from Achy Obejas available now from Beacon Press.
...moreIn my meanness I hear the mother of my mother and her mother / before her, the cold cellars and flat pillows of their hearts. The single current / of anger that ran through their voices, each daughter forever through time / believing herself a burden.
...moreIn Buddhism, there is always an expression on this and that, and the yes and no of this and that. For example, the other side of the river is a metaphor of death, in contrast to this life, this side. I hope that poetry is a way to shatter the border.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreThe first boy to call me beautiful / had hair like a waving fist, walked / down the hallway, radius of curl / beckoning white hands that he’d / allow, though, I’d watch a little / light in him dim to tar.
...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.
...moreIt opens a field of inquiry that stretches to the far corners of culture.
...moreSteven Reigns discusses his newest poetry collection, A QUILT FOR DAVID.
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