The quote and information written in charcoal against a white background. At the top is the Rumpus's full logo in white on top of a yellow ink splotch with "National Poetry Month" written beside it with a red underline.
"Praise your feet at the seething shore, siphoned sand. / Praise delta churn and bracken strand."
From "Psalm" by @rsarnold.bsky.social for National Poetry Month.
β‘οΈ buff.ly/PWoiDI5
21.04.2025 20:01 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Pretty much impossible to sum up what today meant and felt like at the @adopteelitfest.bsky.social . ππΎβ¨ππThis was the crew of 16 of us in the final roundtable reading. So rare for adoptees to feel seen, heard, held, and celebrated. I will not be forgetting today anytime soon. I love this community.
23.03.2025 00:33 β π 14 π 3 π¬ 5 π 1
Shane McCrae's poem "Loving Ireland," performed by the poet. Part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation's Read By series of poetry films.
Directed by Matthew Thompson and produced in collaboration with @IrishArtsCenterNY.
Learn more about McCrae and explore more poetry at https://www.brinke
Shane McCrae - "Loving Ireland"
"I want Ireland to know
whose son I am / And that I am
also its son"
@akasomeguy.bsky.social performs his poem "Loving Ireland" in a film produced with Irish Arts Center.
youtu.be/JgA2E8bfHwY
30.01.2025 15:30 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
a poem is an invitation to be (once again) (actually) alive
27.01.2025 23:28 β π 119 π 23 π¬ 0 π 2
Turns out I donβt have much to say hereβ¦yet. Big news coming that Iβm not able to talk about.
27.01.2025 01:35 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I guess I am here now too?
26.01.2025 21:13 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Writer. π Jewish. π Queer. β‘οΈ
π€ Founder @nonfictionfornoreason (Insta)π€
πποΈInterviews @thestrangerseattle
(re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
some books / some music / some wine / some dogs / some politics
Sacramento CA
Seattle-based writer of journalism, criticism, progressive economics and politics pieces, and comic books. Snelson, my comic with Fred Harper was a New York Public Library Best Adult Comic selection for 2022. Email: thisispaulconstant at gmail dot com.
Poet, pedestrian.
My book WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE (Roof, 2025) emerged from riding every NYC subway end-to-end and charts joy amidst catastrophe.
suelanders.com (she/her)
Diode Editions and Diode Poetry Journal
Our mission is to amplify diverse voices. We are committed to justice, inclusivity, anti-racism, and equity. We strive to craft beautiful books and fanatically support our authors.
Writer | Educator
ATRIA (Liveright/WW Norton, 2026)
https://bookshop.org/p/books/atria-poems-ds-waldman/22666885
words in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Kenyon Review, LARB, ZYZZYVA ++
www.dswaldman.com
Korean adoptee writer. '24 Annie Dillard Prize for CNF winner & Iowa Review Award finalist. '24-25 Bread Loaf, Tin House & Kenyon alum. CNF reader @ Hypertext Review. nikchanghoon.com
Transforming Lives Through Connection and Creativity | Award-Winning Artist, Educator & Creator of Migrating Toward WholenessΒ© | Trauma-Informed Storytelling & Healing Expert
www.LizDeBetta.com
They/them
Eisner-Nominated Comic artist, writer, colorist
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Saturday Morning Adventures
Sarahmyer.net
Writes about culture, adoption, mental health. Dogs rule and sometimes drool. Nominated for a thing I won't get but also had enough therapy to admit if I'm wrong and get it.
Writer // Educator // Lactose Intolerant
πSEA
https://www.jonathanwittmaier.com
π³οΈβπ Award winning author. Adoptee.
IβVE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM 10/14/25
FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE (Unnamed Press, 2018), THE TWAIN (forthcoming from Regal House Publishing 2027), book reviewer, essayist, transracial adoptee, KAD, hapa
www.famousadoptedpeople.com
Writer, adoptee, author of memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere, National Book Critics Circle finalist. π₯ website: http://www.thesusanito.com member of the Writers Grotto
Adoptee-author of essays & books that include award-winning SEARCHING FOR MOM and ADOPTION UNFILTERED. Founder of Adoptee Voices, as well as the Faith Collective for Truth and Healing in Adoption.
saraeasterly.com
Author of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be; We Miss You, GF; Where We Come From (co-author) + others. Printz Honor, Carter G. Woodson + 3 MN Book Awards.
Also: Adoptee, Blerd, Mama, Prof, Runner, Traveler, waiting for the world to end in β25.
Making community and craft accessible to all, in Brooklyn & beyond. https://brooklynpoets.org/
writer. mother. freedom seeker.
here in a last-ditch effort to stay connected to the world without going mad (itβs not going well).
will post something, someday, i swear!
