Notable Online: 11/1–11/7
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Deborah Landau
Notable NYC: 2/8–2/14
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2019!
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Notable NYC: 11/30–12/6
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Between Sex and Death: Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets
Survival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
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Notable NYC: 9/28–10/4
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/7–9/13
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Natalie Scenters-Zapico discusses her new collection, LIMA :: LIMÓN.
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Notable NYC: 5/18–5/24
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 4/13–4/19
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/29–10/5
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/15–9/21
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 3/17–3/23
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 1/20–1/26
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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What to Read When You Don’t Want Summer to End
A list of books that take place in the summer, remind us of summer, and/or just make for great beach reads.
...moreNotable Chicago: 5/26–6/1
Saturday 5/27: The Poetry Foundation hosts Poetry & Music with pianist Inna Faliks and poet, essayist, and critic Deborah Landau. 7 p.m., free. Sunday 5/28: China Miéville discusses October: The Story of the Russian Revolution at The Seminary Co-op Bookstore. 3 p.m., free.
...moreNotable NYC: 1/21–1/27
Saturday 1/21: Women’s March on New York City. Resist. On Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th St and 2nd Ave, 11 am, free. Eléna River, Ryan Collerd, and Carol Snow discuss works of poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Mahogany L Browne, Purvi Shah, and Lauren Whitehead join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Monica Sok
Monica Sok discusses her award-winning poetry chapbook Year Zero, her interest in Southeast Asian history, and living in isolation.
...moreA Literary Q&A, Literally
I’m not interested in poems that simply narrate or enact a performance of a life while the reader watches. It’s important that the work feel distilled and transformed. Poems that are elliptical or take a sidelong approach are more compelling, and feel more accurately aligned with lived experience, too (the truth told “slant” feels more […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Shapiro
Susan Shapiro discusses her latest novel, What’s Never Said, her Instant Gratification Takes Too Long teaching method, and new anti-dating rules between faculty and students at universities such as Harvard and Yale.
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The Uses of the Body by Deborah Landau
Tess Johnson reviews Deborah Landau’s The Uses of the Body today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreYour Emptiness Has an Aqueduct In It
The Last Usable Hour might be one of our truest examples of serial poetry. Each of the book’s four sequences, and each of the poems that comprise them, stand as individual pieces and as chapters in a developing narrative.
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