Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Mason J.
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Posts Tagged: Rumpus Original Poetry
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Kay Ulanday Barrett
someone thought to open up / the sharp thing / rename it meal
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: syan jay
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Emma Brown Sanders
you are not what / you were born to
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Autumn White Eyes
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Lark Omura
The East Coast. I try out the shapes of the words with my mouth.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Cuauhtémoc Peranda
Tanaya Winder and Cuauhtémoc Peranda co-curate exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Sadia Hassan
God, when you raise the dead, / raise him last.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Monica Prince
our future / will be temporary, on this temporal / planet
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by He Xiang
What happens now can end you.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joumana Altallal
The metal of the body, the city’s sudden chill.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Visual Poems by David Joez Villaverde
Can this really still be my dream?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Rae Winkelstein
it’s unclear if you love him or love to ache.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Mlekoday
Where am I going? Is all this talk / of God and grandmothers / merely escape?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Alison C. Rollins
I am a woman. Undone, / A woman is a man.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Anna Meister
Wade with me through this gunk / because you have before.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Ojo Taiye
i’m afraid of the history i come from & i’m afraid of my failing tongue
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Aline Dolinh
I think I am the same sort of animal. I am trying so hard to be kind.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Joanna Fuhrman
Outside, a tidal wave of strangers tried to remake the narrative.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jacqui Germain
How dare the / fire want a thing and then eat it whole
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz
The palm tree stood on the beach and laughed at the sea.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jasmine V. Bailey
It was good to wake up to your insomnia.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Delano Burrowes
I wanted to give you one more chance to make me exist.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Threa Almontaser
I’m dream-ghost, phantasmal, falling through floors from sighing.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Austin Araujo
In my dream, I give you a car to cross / that lonely little kiss of a border.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Janan Alexandra
when I can no longer call, / what else will have no name ?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Karthik Sethuraman
we are within the reach / of some god
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Ailish Hopper
Every empire, a pretty / narrow waist // in someone’s speech.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Ugonna-Ora Owoh
I’m a citizen of several things at once, / as concern as they own me more than myself.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jennifer Givhan
They are headless. As I am too often / headless. As women are wont to be.
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