Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Maya Salameh
the doctors – never warn you about the poem / between your legs.
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Posts Tagged: Rumpus Original Poetry
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by KB Kinkel
You’ve done this before, you know. In so many bodies.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Adela Najarro
My mother’s words / explode volcanic vowels.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Jenny Shi
Barrier becomes a name // for guarding ourselves.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Alysse McCanna
I am a swell that breaks / against the rigging, teeth that tear the tide
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Raymond Antrobus
On screen, I’m peering up a faintly lit staircase and all goes grainy.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Julie Phillips Brown
I keep my distance. / I know it is a place for animals.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Jewel C. Cao
This is the site / of an infinite swallowing.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by SM Stubbs
We are full / of the many ways bodies breach and trespass.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Anuel Rodriguez
Your chest a prism of painted horses. / Your lungs reservoirs for holy water rain.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Marianne Boruch
Maybe not humble but make me— / how about pious?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Matt Broaddus
People stare with their compass / faces asking the same question.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by L. A. Johnson
If before I imagined a gorgeous lake, / by now it would’ve trembled empty.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Arati Warrier
But sometimes a brief moment vibrates in my chest // leaves me to chase desire.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Sihle Ntuli
I will tell you about // the vicious slobbering dogs of suburbia
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kristi Estefania Stout Larios
I know if I open them I will see the ship // the ocean I came from.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Cynthia Parker-Ohene
within the skin of restraints i / violate and redden the / hierarchy of/ humanity
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Rumpus Original Poetry: “Fragments from a Sudden Crescendo”
Museumed graves / intone a call to prayer / for the living.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Alice Liang
The morning rooster rises before us, / the loose bats lie with us after we’ve gone.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: “The Hurting Kind” by Ada Limón
I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.
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National Poetry Month Day 30: Eileen Myles
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 29: Ross Gay
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National Poetry Month Day 28: Jessica Abughattas
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National Poetry Month Day 27: Claire Meuschke
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National Poetry Month Day 26: Malcolm Tariq
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National Poetry Month Day 25: Imani Davis
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National Poetry Month Day 24: Kamden Hilliard
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National Poetry Month Day 23: Bradley Trumpfheller
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National Poetry Month Day 22: J. Estanislao Lopez
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National Poetry Month Day 21: Cynthia Dewi Oka
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