To Make Some Beauty: Talking with brian g. gilmore
Poet brian g. gilmore discusses his newest collection, COME SEE ABOUT ME, MARVIN.
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...more“Hopefully, the takeaway is the journey.”
...moreLiterary events in and around Philly this week!
...more“Ty is, you know, tied in a knot. On a very old shoe.”
...moreKool A.D. discusses his debut novel, OK, the war on drugs, systemic destruction of left-leaning movements by the government, and the inability to escape American capitalism.
...moreYona Harvey talks about her path to becoming a poet, Winnie Mandela as an artistic inspiration, and what it means to write more publicly.
...morePoet Erik Kennedy discusses literary community and his formative years as a young writer in New Jersey, and shares two new prose poems.
...moreEditors and producers skin my art and wrap my entire face with it, asking me to write and read in Black face.
...moreWhat if I said: while people still believe they are white in America, that delusion, and the dream upon which it is founded, needs to be seriously examined.
...moreMy responsibility is to not be negligent and cause unnecessary harm. To a listener or reader. My allegiance is only to truth.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Phillip B. Williams about his new book Thief in the Interior, form in poetry, and balancing editing work with one’s own.
...moreWe’re at that point in the holiday shopping season where if you don’t already have a gift for someone, you either have to deal with the other last-minute shoppers in stores, pay an outrageous shipping rate online and hope the post office/shipping company gets it to you on time… or buy something a little more abstract, […]
...moreFor Literary Hub, Nick Ripatrazone breaks down—and defends—the poet laureate.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Paul Vangelisti about Amiri Baraka’s S O S Poems 1961-2013, as well as Baraka’s place among American writers and the ways in which his poetry and politics intersected and collided.
...moreAmiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), known for his poems, plays, and for the initiation of the Black Arts Movement, died on January 9th. Though there have been many articles talking about the man as legend, over at The New Yorker, Hilton Als discusses the man as human through the lens of Als’ personal relationships with […]
...moreEarlier this week, while speaking to some younger poets, I became intrigued with their nascent fascination, to the point of headiness, with all things poetically elliptical, non-linear, and disjunctive. I say intrigued, but in my heart it felt more like exasperated. Listening to them, I realized that it was as if style —not form, not […]
...moreYesterday, avant-garde cinema legend Jonas Mekas posted remarkable archival footage of Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’hara, Amiri Baraka (who still went by Leroi Jones), and Ray Bremser reading together in 1959. The reading, which took place at the Living Theater in New York City, was a benefit for Yugen magazine. No audio was recorded at the […]
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