Blogs
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Notable Los Angeles: 5/18-5/24
Saturday 5/18: Today is the last stop in UC Irvine MFA students off-campus reading tour. Fiction writers Blake Kimzey and Justin Lee, and poets Josh Cornwell and Meagan Cooney will present their work. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books. Sunday 5/19: Giant Robot is…
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Rise in the Fall by Ana Božičević
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Ana Božičević’s Rise in the Fall today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Desolation: Souvenir by Paul Hoover
Robin Morrissey reviews Paul Hoover’s Desolation: Souvenir today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Foxes, Hedgehogs, and Bad Judgment
Asked by James Dickey why he got “into this,” meaning into the literary business, into poetry, Robert Penn Warren says, “bad judgment.” I suppose, one thinks about this sort of thing often when one is bleeding poems into existence. One…
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Forty-One Jane Doe’s by Carrie Olivia Adams
Marisa Siegel reviews Carrie Olivia Adams’s Forty-One Jane Doe’s today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Why I Chose Gregory Orr’s River Inside the River for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
But grace is what I found in River Inside the River. Grace in abundance.
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The Next Letter for Kids: Kristen Kittscher
The next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Kristen Kittscher! Kristen is the author of The Wig in the Window and The Tiara on the Terrace, the first two books in a mystery series for middle-grade readers. She grew up all…
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The Last Book of Poems I Loved: Looking for The Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco
Sara Habein on the last book of poems she loved, Richard Blanco’s Looking for the Gulf Motel.
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Nick Cave Monday #35: “The Lyre of Orpheus”
Happy Mother’s Day. And a big hug to Dawn Cave, the mother who gave us the King of The Bad Seeds. Thank you, Dawn, and thank you, Calliope. Calli-a-who? Calliope was the mother of the greatest musician of all time,…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Today we have an interview with Emily Rapp. Here, too, for Mother’s Day, is Emily’s “This Mother’s Day, I Am No Longer a Mother.” Congrats to one of the most generous writers I know, Caroline Leavitt, whose novel Is This…
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Links I Like
Years ago, after I graduated from UC Santa Cruz, I couldn’t write because my editor voice seemed to be in overdrive. I would start a sentence and somehow end up with a page filled with words that were neatly crossed…
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Notable Los Angeles: 5/11-5/17
Saturday 5/11: Lit Fest Pasadena 2.0 is on! Enjoy a full day of readings, panels, performances and signings from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Pasadena’s Central Park. Also in Pasadena, 826LA presents Mini-Golf for Cheaters, with special guests Al Madrigal, Brendan…