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You May Say Fist, You May Say Teeth
The unsentimental and honest display of Levin’s attitudes towards loss – her own losses as well the ways that others grieve their lost loved ones – is both moving and strangely distancing, as if by...
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Poet Galway Kinnell sadly passed away a few days ago. Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books a group of authors—including, among others, Dana Levin and Natalie Diaz—pay homage to his great life and...
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Banana Palace by Dana Levin
I eagerly awaited my advanced review copy of Dana Levin’s fourth book, Banana Palace, after talking to an enthusiastic intern at Copper Canyon about it a year ago and finding out it was all about...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Gabrielle Calvocoressi about her new collection Rocket Fantastic, the fluid nature of gender, and the reader as collaborator with the text. This is an edited...
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Notable NYC: 10/21–10/27
Saturday 10/21: Emily Bludworth de Barrios and Carlos Prince-Sanchez read poetry. Wendy’s Subway, 7 p.m., free. Joseph O. Legaspi and Phillip B. Williams join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m.,...
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Notable Portland: 11/9–11/15
Thursday 11/9: Historian and organizer Mark Bray presents, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, in conversation with Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. Powell’s City of...
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
It’s no secret that at The Rumpus, we love us some poetry, which makes April one of our favorite months of the year! But, just in case sharing thirty thrilling new poems with you each day throughout...
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Notable San Francisco: 4/25–5/1
Wednesday 4/25: Perfectly Queer East Bay celebrates National Poetry Month. Free, 7 p.m., Laurel Bookstore (Oakland). Poets Dana Levin and Dean Rader read their work. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple...
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The Last Book I Loved: Re-reading Dana Levin’s Banana Palace in 2019
In 2016, Dana Levin’s Banana Palace announced itself as a book that was deeply skeptical and playfully amused with certain mechanisms of modern life, specifically overreaching technology and the...
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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2019
This year has been unrelenting. America and the world continue to face a series of crises that we are ill-prepared to manage, let alone avoid. I am struggling to believe that next year might be...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Benjamin Garcia
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Benjamin Garcia about his debut collection Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed, August 2020), how poems find their form, the size of Texas, trying to balance reading...
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Notable Online: 10/18–10/24
Monday 10/19: Claire Messud presents Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $3. Jeffrey Harrison and Owen...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erin Belieu
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Erin Belieu about her new collection Come-Hither Honeycomb (Copper Canyon Press, February 2020), multiplicity in language, middle-aged bodies, publicly judging...
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Notable Online: 4/25–5/1
Sunday 4/25: Kelli Stevens Kane, Alexa Doran, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Janel Pineda, Sarah Dowling, and Donna Vorreyer, with guest host Mariko Gordon, join the Mercy Street Readings. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, $6...
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The Last Poem I Loved: “The Hell Poem” by Shane McCrae
Many poets write from dreams, but few poets alive today have embarked on the monumental visio, or dream vision, genre of poetry. In its classic form, the visio reveals knowledge not usually accessible...
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Notable Online: 7/25–7/31
Monday 7/26: Lisa Wells presents Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, in conversation with Kate Lebo. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free. Charlie Jane Anders, P. Djèlí...
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What to Read When 2022 Is Just Around the Corner
It’s true that 2021 was a year that challenged all of us in so very many ways, but it was also a banner year for reading (find some of our favorite books from the year here and here). While we know...
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