Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Brandon Amico
One in ten Americans will not read this poem.
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Posts Tagged: Rumpus Original Poetry
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Monica Sok
He pretends he cannot be seen. / I pretend I cannot find him.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Dina Paulson-McEwen
If there were a place with a window / to all places, it would be Santa Fe.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Hussain Ahmed
the girl does not want her child to inherit any of her gowns // so she set herself on fire.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Elizabeth Robinson
A story consists in how long the creature can hold it all in, the lung of the thing.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Craig Santos Perez
What is the sound / of no Spam frying?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Seven Visual Poems by Sarah J. Sloat
She spoke for ages one afternoon / about / kneeling.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kary Wayson
Which summer bird makes that wonderful chirp?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Frank Johnson
i run out of words for God & i can’t speak to my demons but / i hear them
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Bronwen Tate
A little bite dissolves. It’s a beginning, / bait.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Bettina Judd
dive— / your back a black sight.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Millissa Kingbird
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Jess Rizkallah
once, / stones in a pocket didn’t mean walking into the sea.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Tyler Dettloff
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Dante Di Stefano
What’s a bright moment to a blind man?
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Clarissa Mendiola
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Chelsea Dingman
Hopelessness is a marriage of light / & dark.
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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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