Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Faylita Hicks
a pastor. green.a pen like a pink tooth. i wish you ink that bleeds.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Luther Hughes
About storms, truly, what did I know?
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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: Four Poems by Kate Gaskin
Love, forgive / my shallows. My endless need.
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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.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Kiki Petrosino
O / ion subdivided into // Empire
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Christina Olivares
the remedy of displacement / is that we can root almost anywhere
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Noor Ibn Najam
oh God, where gender of me?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Sara Borjas
Absent things // never leave because they never arrive.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Marwa Helal
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
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
your hands learn a kind of mercy about my neck
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Open Reading Periods for Unsolicited Poetry!
The Rumpus wants to read your poems!
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Philip Metres
know cannot I / end will this how
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Rumpus Original Poetry: When I die, I hope they talk about me
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 Aditi Machado
I am stopped from the couplet / or at the border of a country.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Heid E. Erdrich
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Casandra López
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Crisosto Apache
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: b: william bearhart
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Roy G. Guzmán
Time blunts the crooked / to savage pews
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Jake Skeets
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Laura Da’
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Diane Seuss
Tragic spectacle my realm. I its ruthless queen.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Andrés Cerpa
I have stood above the labyrinth / & touched what is not there
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joy Priest
Whole ecosystems, / the country’s fauna, built through / our long blood.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Dena Rash Guzman
What is the sound a witch makes / when she sinks? There is no word for that.
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The Rumpus Seeks Poetry Readers!
Rumpus Original Poetry is looking for a team of readers.
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