National Poetry Month Day 3: Rosebud Ben-Oni
The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new poems daily from poets we admire, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Both Nostalgia and Dream: Talking with Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis discusses her debut collection, MOUTHGUARD.
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National Poetry Month Day 2: Jenny Xie
The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new poems daily from poets we admire, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 1: Justin Phillip Reed
The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new poems daily from poets we admire, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Gutting the Sonnet: A Conversation with Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown discusses his third collection, THE TRADITION.
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Eliminated to Illuminated: Tarfia Faizullah’s Registers of Illuminated Villages
Faizullah drills language for meaning.
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ENOUGH: We Are Trembling in Our Skins
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky discusses his new collection, DEAF REPUBLIC.
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Rooted to the Earth: The Carrying by Ada Limón
Limón’s ability to express her speaker’s connection to the earth, her desire to bring forth life in all its forms, is breathtaking.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Christina Olivares
the remedy of displacement / is that we can root almost anywhere
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: W. S. Merwin: An Appreciation
The psyche is haunted by its own swollen intimacies, Merwin’s poems remind us.
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War Games: Kill Class by Nomi Stone
What happens when we play along with something not real—does it become real?
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Caligulan” by Ernest Hilbert
Now we are untethered, which is disquieting.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Noor Ibn Najam
oh God, where gender of me?
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Melodic, Honorable Engagement: Ryan Vine, T. R. Hummer, and Norman Finkelstein
Reading Vine, Hummer and Finkelstein, in an era in which people often feel almost flattened, we rise.
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What Is Found There: Talking with Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox
Poets Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox discuss their writing.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Whitman Notebook: Which Is Ahead
Walt Whitman says that to be an American is to be a poet.
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ENOUGH: What Becomes of a Body
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan discusses her latest collection, THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR.
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Peripheral Terror: Total Recall by Samantha Giles
There is horror in how a memory can be altered or rendered “false” by exterior forces.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Sara Borjas
Absent things // never leave because they never arrive.
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Telling Our Truths: A Conversation with Shaindel Beers
Shaindel Beers discusses her third collection, SECURE YOUR OWN MASK.
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Delicious Courage: Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence
Melnick’s craft is in the extreme language and unfamiliar syntax which blends a brew that, while bitter, is also intoxicating.
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SquareRoot of Love: Broken Heart
We must find a way to keep the roots of love and justice strong.
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Why I Chose Franny Choi’s Soft Science for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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Both/And: Republic Café by David Biespiel
How is one to make sense of making catastrophe and making love in the same moment?
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From One World to the Next: Talking with Julie Lythcott-Haims
Julie Lythcott-Haims discusses HOW TO RAISE AN ADULT and REAL AMERICAN.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Marwa Helal
i was asking for the ocean and i got a grain of / sand
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The Internal and the External: A Conversation with Wendy Willis
Wendy Willis discusses her new essay collection, THESE ARE STRANGE TIMES, MY DEAR.
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Slippery and Dark and Brilliant: A Conversation with Morgan Parker
Morgan Parker discusses her newest collection, MAGICAL NEGRO.
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