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The Sense of Words: Reverse Engineer by Kate Colby

. . . language is duplicitous. To be broken is perhaps to be part of a process (or a metaphor for life), where to bend (and survive) also leads to being broken. In this context, the word “broken” in “Reverse Engineer” might well point to a hard-won success.

From the Archive: The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

I want to leave the party through the window and find my uncle standing on a piece of iron shaped into visible desperation, which must also be (how can it not?) the beginning of visible hope.

Revising Time: Nonlinear Memory in Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float

I’m getting too close to the poems, but Tierney’s collection demands a closeness.

From the Archive: The Rumpus Inaugural Poems: Eve L. Ewing

Each day from January 7 to January 20, Rumpus Original Poems will feature poetry written in response to the coming presidential inauguration. Today’s poems are from Eve L. Ewing.

But tonight, a little more: A Conversation with J. Hope Stein

What’s the difference between sports bras and regular bras?— What’s the difference between Jesus and God?

Taking to Heart Unbearable Reality: The Rumpus Interview with Jorie Graham

As I say to myself, living under the reality of this new, second cancer, I am rich in minutes. Maybe not in years, or, who knows, even months. But minutes, yes. So, I try not to squander them.

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Sean Cho A.

sun bears are the smallest bear species / the 2nd smallest bear species is / not the moon bear although they are / relatively small when compared / to other bears such as polar bears

RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: DISPATCHES FROM A FUTURE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER BY FRANNY CHOI

An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club's November selection, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: Jealous of Children By Jill McDonough

An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club‘s October selection, American Treasure by Jill McDonough forthcoming from Alice James Books on November 8, 2022 Subscribe by September 15 to the…

I Am No One’s Graveyard: An Interview With No‘u Revilla

Sometimes a poem is a rock, and sometimes rocks turn into flowers. And no matter how many poems I write about aloha and decolonial futures, they may still try to kill me

From the Archive: Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Morgan Parker

I am only as lonely / as anybody else, I say / at lunch downtown, examining / my worth.

From the Archive: Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by sam sax

how many men have / passed through this room, through my lips?

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