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The next Letter in the Mail, going out early next week, is from Gabrielle Calvocoressi.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea. 2005) and Apocalyptic Swing (Persea. 2009), which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aase Berg and translator Johannes Göransson about the poetry collection Transfer Fat. We are also joined this month by Garth Graeper of Ugly Duckling Presse, who published Transfer Fat.
That’s (part of) the title of this piece on the PEN Center website by Rumpus Poetry Book Club Board member Gabrielle Calvocoressi. It’s absolutely beautiful. Here’s a short sample:
“I’m really glad I had that lousy job because I know what it is to make someone copies at the last minute and to be told the coffee is too cold.
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“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?”
– Emily Webb
Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
Michael Klein is an award-winning poet and author whose poetry collections 1990 and Poets for Life are winners of the Lambda Literary Book Award. He lives in New York City and teaches memoir writing in the summer program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Come catch up! Highlights from this week in Rumpus books are below the fold.
“Every Person in This Town Loves Football”
Even the nuns come out
to watch the boys in their
gold and blue. Sister Marita,
Sister Anne, and some weeks
“The opposite of transcendence (to me) is simply anyone who just makes pronouncements or qualifies themselves without doing the deep, ongoing work of inquiry.”
...moreHappy Saturday everyone.
So Missouri Governor Jay Nixon wants a Poet Laureate for the state who doesn’t have anything in his or her background that might embarrass him. I take it he doesn’t know many poets.
Connecticut is looking for a Poet Laureate too.
...moreThis weekend in south Florida, all the cultural talk is about the Miami Book Fair, and while it is generally dominated by the same sort of pop culture excrescence one might expect, there are also some really great writers taking part as well, especially this weekend.
...moreJim Murdoch’s piece on the reader’s responsibility to breathe life into poems is fascinating. At the very least, it’s a good metaphor for people who teach poetry to those who don’t read it much.
Here’s a look back–way back–at some really early poetry.
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