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National Poetry Month Day 26: Ladan Osman

  • Ladan Osman
  • April 26, 2022
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Issam Zineh

  • Issam Zineh
  • March 10, 2022
The sky in Clearwater is the print / of your dress—all aster & blue starling. / The year ends the way it began. You asking me / for the indescribable. Sky has no notion of sky.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Sarah Fathima Mohammed

  • Sarah Fathima Mohammed
  • February 3, 2022
Moons empty in the whisper / of space between us. / Mother’s ankles roll into / my calf, brimming with silver, / with sleep. The night is made / of photographs. We sleep over / the prayer rug, woven from / all the daughters that have / pressed their lips to it / and swallowed.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Adrian Matejka

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • April 18, 2017
Adrian Matejka discusses his new collection Map to the Stars, writing about poverty in contemporary poetry, and how racism maintains its place in our society.
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Love you too, Harriet!

  • Brian Spears
  • December 15, 2011
Harriet, aka the Poetry Foundation blog, has posted an excerpt of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s recent chat with T. R. Hummer. Watch as I learn what the Bald Man…
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Why I Chose What I Chose, Ceiling of Sticks

  • Camille T. Dungy
  • July 13, 2010
Rumpus Poetry Book Club Advisory Board member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Shane Book’s Ceiling of Sticks to be the group’s first selection. If anyone were to accuse…
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