Weekend Rumpus Roundup

First, Leila Aboulela examines time and its tricks in “Pinpricks” for the Saturday Rumpus Essay.

And this weekend, we kicked off our Rumpus Inaugural Poems project with Leila Chatti’s eulogy for every mother’s lost country in “Motherland,” and Kaveh Akbar’s surreal images of reconstructionism in “Poem to a Conqueror.”

Meanwhile, Brandon Hicks shares a very funny new comic, “An Interview with BabyFace McTithead.”

Finally, in Sunday Rumpus Poetry, Faisal Mohyuddin offers us three simple moments of hope amongst riddles of anxiety in complicated times.