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National Poetry Month Day 32: Heid E. Erdrich

Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month by running new poems from poets we admire. We feature a different poet each day, and aim to illustrate the variety in voices and styles of poetry being written today.

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Rumpus Original

On Making Wishes

It is true that I’m talking to a photo, but I’m not crazy. Neither am I a durochka. Fools are oblivious, at least those from my childhood fairy tales. I, on the other hand, am perfectly aware of the problem.

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Notable Philadelphia: 5/2–5/8

Tuesday 5/2: Exposure: An Aperture Agency Photo Exhibit + Babel (Temple’s poetry collective). 12 p.m.–4 p.m. at Annenberg Hall. Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) in conversation with Kelsey Halliday Johnson.…

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

In Chicago, Aimee Levitt wonders how many bookstores she can visit in a single day to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day. Meanwhile, in Seattle, Moira Macdonald explains how she planned on maximizing…

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The Whimsy and Discipline of Anne Garréta’s Not One Day

If people cannot be captured, if “there are only erasures,” then might as well seek them in elisions, where their potential remains.

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Sometimes you just want to look at transit system fabrics of the world. Sometimes you just want to look at abandoned malls in disrepair. Hey guess what? Smart cities are…

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FUNNY WOMEN #153: So You Want to Be a Woman

If the eyes are the window to the soul, then the drapes should match the wallpaper. Fix what you got and then flaunt what you fixed!

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National Poetry Month Day 31: Adrian Matejka

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Help Small Presses Live to Fight Another Day

What if you could spend a little bit of money to make sure that your favorite books from independent publishers, like Coffee House Press, Dorothy, and Copper Canyon Press, turn up…

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Rumpus Original

Back to the Places I’ve Left

“No one knows how to handle it,” I tell her, but I can see she’s angry and I’m speaking into the wind.

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Notable Los Angeles

Notable Los Angeles: 5/1–5/7

Monday 5/1: Reyna Biddy presents and signs I Love My Love. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 5/2: Gina Sorrell launches her new novel, Mothers & Other Strangers. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s…

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A Full-Throated Cry from a Clarion: Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan

We seem to be floating in a weird soup of truthiness and alternative facts. Perhaps the state of American life explains the explosive power of The Book of Joan, or perhaps it’s the other way around; perhaps, at last, American life is ready for Lidia Yuknavitch.

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