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Notable Portland: 4/28–5/4
Thursday 4/28: Local poets Joe Wilkins, A. Molotkov, and Jeff Alessandrelli read from their latest poetry. Another Read Through, 7 p.m., free. Jim Lynch reads from his new book, Before the Wind. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free. Portland…
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When White Saviors Create Literary Journals
Hey! We’re white! And we all voted for Obama! Twice! We should do something to help the literary downtrodden. American literature is already frustrating enough with publishing sorely lacking in diversity. But things can be even worse when the white-dominated industry…
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Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta
John Yargo reviews Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta today in Rumpus Books.
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Poetry as Peace Work
Over at Los Angeles Review of Books, Leah Mirakhor engages poet Robin Coste Lewis, 2015 National Book Award winner of Voyage of the Sable Venus, in deep and generous conversation about writing and life. Coste Lewis remembers Audre Lorde as a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mapping the brain’s language filing system (is apparently a thing we can do). Here’s an adorable lil new distant moon for you. Perhaps you have wondered: sup with the rattle of peacock feathers tho? Where is the South Pole now?…
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Albums of Our Lives: Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports
I drifted off and dreamed that Emily and I donned riding hoods and ran through the forest to escape from wolves.
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The Psychic Sasquatch
Most libraries have limited physical shelf space, so if they want to purchase new books for their collections, often they have to remove some old ones. Two librarians, Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner, know this can be a tough pill for…
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Poetics on the Radio
This is where poetry approaches music. Because you cannot put meaning in words as intellectually comprehensible. It’s just there, and you know it’s there. And it is the rhythm and the beat and the music of the sound that carries…
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Fingerprints On Every Sentence
For Electric Literature, Selin Gökcesu shares her experience rereading Jane Eyre. Though she had loved the novel in childhood, Gökcesu’s MFA experience and her “selective” adult perspective “eroded” her interest in the novel: At thirty-eight, what I perceived as Brontë’s…
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Dr. Dre and N.W.A., Reunited
No lie. In what was the closest the living world will ever get to a full-fledged N.W.A. reunion, Dr. Dre joined Ice Cube, DJ Yella, and MC Ren at Coachella to perform “Still D.R.E.” Kendrick Lamar accompanied them as well, Vulture reports. Watch…
