Blogs
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Bully Pulpit by Kim Bridgford
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kim Bridgford’s Bully Pulpit today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Litany for the City by Ryan Teitman
Michelle Salcido reviews Ryan Teitman’s Litany for the City today in Rumpus Poetry.
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FUNNY WOMEN #103: Gertrude Stein Reviews Beer
If I drank it, would Napoleon, would he drink it if I liked him. Would Napoleon, would the top notes, would the caramel if I told him.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Andrea Portes
The next Letter in the Mail, going out Friday, June 14, is from Andrea Portes! Sign up by noon PT tomorrow if you’d like to receive her letter. Andrea is the author of two novels: the forthcoming Bury This, and the semi-autobiographical Hick, which…
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Nick Cave Monday #41: “Momma’s Boy”
Nick Cave was a singer named Freak Storm in the 1991 film Johnny Suede. Tom DiCillo wrote and directed the film. It was his directorial debut. Before this film he paid his dues as cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch. One day,…
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Lit-Link Round-up
By the time you’re reading this, I’m in Mexico, prepping for this awesome thing. Depending on my internet connection, this could be my last Round-up until after July 16, when I return to Chicago…but most likely, I’ll be checking in…
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Notable Los Angeles: 6/22 – 6/28
Saturday 6/22: The Echo Park Lake has reopened! Buy a book from Stories and spend this sunny afternoon on the grass, reading by the lake. Sunday 6/23: Sumarr Reading Series presents Sumarr II, an afternoon of poetry and prose with…
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Links I Like
I’ve been housesitting and labeled my week here as a writer’s retreat. I haven’t quite gotten used to the coffee maker, so I put way too much coffee in the machine and drink two cups, which I’m beginning to see…
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Striven, the Bright Treatise by Jeffrey Pethybridge
Jody Smiling reviews Jeffrey Pethybridge’s Striven, the Bright Treatise today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Cynicism of Mark Edmundson, Or Poetry Is Still Not Dead
Mark Edmundson’s take down of contemporary American poetry, “Poetry Slam,” (currently behind the paywall) in this month’s issue of Harper’s, is not so bad really. He’s right about the insularity of the American poetic idiom, the stranglehold of deconstructive theory…
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THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: Eleanor & Park
I was born in 1986, the year that this story takes place, but like Eleanor I remember sitting on a boy’s carpet and feeling uncomfortable and excited and getting mixtapes and shaking for hours after kissing someone once.
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Small Porcelain Head by Allison Benis White
Marcus Myers reviews Allison Benis White’s Small Porcelain head today in Rumpus Poetry.