National Poetry Month Day 2: Virginia Konchan
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Teaching the Ineffable: Learning to Pray by Yahia Lababidi
. . . in the end, the poem is its own witness to something indefinable with which the poet is engaged. Whatever the poet thinks it is, the poem itself is the vehicle, the container, describing itself and gesturing beyond its words.
Like Clockwork, Like Memory: There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife by JinJin Xu
How to live with a love so intense, a pressure so ripe?
Beauty in a Cold Season: Katherine May’s Wintering
As we go, we are breathlessly held in an in-between state, a limbo, a transition.
Affliction: On Finding Relief in Pain
Hurting heightened everything, both within and without it.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Eric Tran
Eric Tran discusses his new collection, THE GUTTER SPREAD GUIDE TO PRAYER.
The Life of the Mind: A Conversation with Elizabeth Scanlon
Elizabeth Scanlon discusses her debut full-length collection, Lonesome Gnosis, brains and trains, and poetry as prayer.
Celebrating Eid in Trump’s America
It seems when our dialogue loses nuance, society in turn loses its mind.
TORCH: The American Girl at the Temple
[T]o be a tourist in a foreign country is very different than being a tourist in a foreign country where you are expected to feel you have returned home.