Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Chelsea Dingman
Hopelessness is a marriage of light / & dark.
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Posts Tagged: Rumpus Original Poetry
Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Killa Ch’aska
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Quenton Baker
i write the field open / while buried beneath it
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Roanna Shebala
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Byron F. Aspaas
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Natalie Wee
As if // it wasn’t enough that the body is a cage.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Michael Dhyne
Mother, what was I before this?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Emilia Phillips
A thumb makes a perfect / bruise, don’t you think?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Uma Menon
instead you make aliens out of people // on your own world
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by H. Melt
forgive me and I’ll forgive you / for forcing me into a skirt
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Noor Hindi
I stopped trying / to feed anything but myself.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Marlin M. Jenkins
let the echo pulse until the sound can’t hold these crooked scared hands
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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: Four Poems by Maya Phillips
is there only such a silence / as the grave?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by sam sax
how many men have / passed through this room, through my lips?
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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: 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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