The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #221: Noah C. Lekas
“Hopefully, the takeaway is the journey.”
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Posts Tagged: Diane di Prima
What to Read When You’re a Whiting Award Winner
The 2018 Whiting Awards winners share books that have inspired them, plus a giveaway!
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #29: Poetry Is an Affliction
On Thursday night, May 25, an amazing event will take place outside a BART train station in the Mission District of San Francisco, as it has every Thursday night for the past fourteen years. If you were to pass by, you might not even notice what is taking place. The corner of 16th Street and Mission […]
...moreNotable San Francisco: 4/5–4/11
Wednesday 4/5: The theme for tonight’s “Inside StoryTime” is “Chagrin.” Featured writers are Ethel Rohan (The Weight of Him), Jon Sindell (Family Happiness), Peg Alford Purcell (Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow), Amy Berkowitz (Tender Points) and Christine No. Hosted by James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns). Free, 7 p.m., The Makeout Room. Thursday […]
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The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
Writing the book on Gatsby, nostalgia for Land’s End, and a new “American poetry playlist”—all in the Rumpus Books this week.
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The Poetry Deal by Diane di Prima
Barbara Berman reviews Diane di Prima’s The Poetry Deal today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreThe Last Poem I Loved: “Revolutionary Letter #1” by Diane di Prima
The summer I turned 19, after my first year of college, I took off, leaving behind my small midwestern campus, to work in a gift shop in Yosemite National Park. That’s a whole other story, and maybe someday I’ll tell it, but for now it’s enough to know that I was there. And that one […]
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