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National Poetry Month Day 25: Randall Mann
Letters from Satilla Diann Blakely, 1957-2014 1. Have you read Andrew Hudgins’ After the Lost War or even Sidney Lanier’s “The Marshes of Glynn”?
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, for Day 23 of National Poetry Month, Valerie Wetlaufer’s “Method” uses third person to describe a victim of mysterious migraines, and for Day 24, Tyehimba Jess calls for the curtain to rise “to show the face that is known” in…
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Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor
Zakiya Harris reviews Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings today in Rumpus Books.
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Prince, We Miss You
This has been a difficult year for our musical heroes. The loss of Prince has the world mourning, once again, an artist whose work gave listeners the strength and permission to be as different, exceptional, and free as they wished.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe honeybees feel? So now you’ve got THAT to worry about. Perhaps you’ve wondered: hey who brought science fiction magazines to America? Perhaps you’ve wondered: hey what’s up with RC Cola? Our lab mice are, like, SO cold. American money…
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Sound & Vision: John Congleton
Allyson McCabe speaks with GRAMMY-winning producer/engineer John Congleton about what it’s like to make music in today’s technological and economic environments, and the benefits of being open to adaptation.
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National Poetry Month Day 24: Tyehimba Jess
Sissieretta Jones, Carnegie Hall, 1902: O patria mia. Aida, buried in the darkness of her fate. Aida, singing in the tomb of her lover. Her lover a notion pale as the aria circling from her mouth.
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landscape/heartbreak by Michelle Peñaloza
Donna Spruijt-Metz reviews Michelle Peñaloza’s landscape/heartbreak today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Motel Ecstasy
Alia Volz’s artist, expat mom needed to leave Mexico and go back to the United States for a heavy-duty chemo treatment, which meant it was time for a mother-daugther road trip.
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Notable NYC: 4/23–4/29
Saturday 4/23: Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Jadele McPherson, t’ai freedom ford, and Val Jeanty read poems of surrealism and politics. High Line Park at 23rd Street, 3 p.m., free. Tonya Foster celebrates Swarm of Bees with Marcella Durand, Charles Bernstein,…
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National Poetry Month Day 23: Valerie Wetlaufer
Method The tea must be left on the counter, or she won’t remember where it is in the morning. There must be milk