Rumpus Original Poems
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Catherine Chen
Wanting is passé. Airplanes fulfill me enough these days.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Kemi Alabi
She tells me Paris / is mostly glitter and ash this time of year.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Madeleine Wattenberg
I split my voice into a chorus to drive you / from your ship’s wood hull.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Esteban Rodríguez
I think / of the ink as armor, a badge, as a medal
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Aria Aber
One hears everything here, where the landscape / is a clean knife, slicing the mute—
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by M. Soledad Caballero
It is deep growing. Your body the culprit. It spreads.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Esther Ra
home became a fistful of objects / pounding its dirge on my back
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Raena Shirali
The air is writ of ash and sand, though this is no memorial.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Manuel Paul López
There are Looks in the fences. They stink of menace and iron work.
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National Poetry Month Day 9: Tacey M. Atsitty
The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new poems daily from poets we admire, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
