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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Christina Olivares

  • Christina Olivares
  • March 21, 2019
the remedy of displacement / is that we can root almost anywhere
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Noor Ibn Najam

  • Noor Ibn Najam
  • March 7, 2019
oh God, where gender of me?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Sara Borjas

  • Sara Borjas
  • February 21, 2019
Absent things // never leave because they never arrive.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Marwa Helal

  • Marwa Helal
  • February 7, 2019
i was asking for the ocean and i got a grain of / sand
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kien Lam

  • Kien Lam
  • January 17, 2019
I want the language of wolves / each howl planted in the ground
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by I.S. Jones

  • I.S. Jones
  • January 3, 2019
your hands learn a kind of mercy about my neck
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Rumpus Original Poetry: “When I die, I hope they talk about me”

  • Camille T. Dungy
  • December 8, 2018
I hope / there is a heaven copious enough / to hold a place for every soul
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Dena Rash Guzman

  • Dena Rash Guzman
  • September 20, 2018
What is the sound a witch makes / when she sinks? There is no word for that.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Nate Marshall

  • Nate Marshall
  • September 6, 2018
there’s no word for us / except our names & what is / a secret if i say it / in front of company?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Analicia Sotelo

  • Analicia Sotelo
  • January 25, 2018
And sometimes the poems were like that. / When we wrote knife, bubbly, naked, / we were really getting down, / dancing hard on the injury.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Michael Bazzett

  • Michael Bazzett
  • November 9, 2017
Nothing’s more delicious than licking the salty // fat from your enemies’ bones. Tastes a bit like / chicken.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Hala Alyan

  • Hala Alyan
  • October 5, 2017
Nothing’s Freudian anymore. A cigar’s a cigar. I want to love something. / I want to love something without having to apologize for it. Please don’t tell.
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