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Deborah Landau
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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.
Notable 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…
Notable 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…
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.
A 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…
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.
The Uses of the Body by Deborah Landau
Tess Johnson reviews Deborah Landau's The Uses of the Body today in Rumpus Poetry.
Your 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…