April 2014
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National Poetry Month Day 7: “Such Unfortunates” by Sophie Klahr
Such Unfortunates It doesn’t get better, it gets different. Ask God, Clean House, Help Others. Try taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever— with and without solemn oath. This too shall pass: this rented office space, these…
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The Golden Age of Second Novels
Despite the challenges writers face with debut novels, the second novel is generally considered the most difficult to write. Some second novels fail to exceed the first, and plenty of authors never even write a second novel. But we might…
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Made to Break by D. Foy
Michael Jauchen reviews MADE TO BREAK by D. Foy today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Notable Los Angeles: 4/7–4/13
Happy National Poetry Month! Monday 4/7: Michelle Theall presents and signs Teaching the Cat to Sit. 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup. John Corey Whaley reads from Noggin. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books. Tuesday 4/8: THE RwIrGiHtTe READ LITERARY SERIES, curated…
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SELF-MADE MAN #29: Ghosts
I dodge taxis and drunk college kids near Astor Place and think how sweet to be a man in motion on a Saturday night; man formed of needles and a hundred sweaty locker rooms; a man without translation; a man…
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National Poetry Month Day 6: “The Early Minutes of Without” by Michael Klein
The Early Minutes of Without You thought you were spared falling in love with another drunk now that you were sober and could feel the ordinary grain that ran through everything. You were awake in the great city and moved…
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California or Bust!
This Sunday Rumpus happens to find me arriving in original Rumpus stomping ground, San Francisco, where I’m thrilled to be reading at The Make-Out Room tonight with Janice Cooke Newman and Liza Monroy! Master of ceremonies is San Fran and…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Adrift
Carefree days of sunbathing topless and reading Salinger comes to an abrupt turning point when the young Serber must choose between starting a writing program she’s dreamed of vs. playing house–and playing it safe–on her lover’s sailboat.
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WANTED: DEATH LAMENT
the dog born March 30th who I will find 6 months from now to know what it’s like to hurl myself down the mountain for the wind to blow right through me
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Notable NYC: 4/5–4/11
Saturday 4/5: T. Zachary Cotler reads from his novel Ghost at the Loom (2013), the story of a poet remembering his sister as he treks across Europe. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 4/6: Paige Taggart celebrates the release of Want…
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National Poetry Month Day 5: “ESL” by Jericho Brown
ESL You come with a little Black string tied Around your tongue Knotted to remind Where you came from And why you left Behind photographs Of people whose Names need no Pronouncing. How Do you say God Now that the…
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If I Don’t Breathe How Do I Sleep by Joe Wenderoth
Eric Dean Wilson reviews Joe Wenderoth’s If I Don’t Breathe How Do I Sleep today in Rumpus Poetry.