The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Adrienne Christian
Adrienne Christian discusses her newest collection, WORN.
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Join NOW!Adrienne Christian discusses her newest collection, WORN.
...moreA look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
...moreAs the book continues, [Laux] traces a growing understanding of loss.
...moreMarika Lindholm discusses WE GOT THIS: SOLO MOM STORIES OF GRIT, HEART, AND HUMOR.
...moreDorianne Laux discusses her newly released collection, ONLY AS THE DAY IS LONG.
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreA list of books releasing in the first half of 2019 that we can’t wait to read!
...moreLiterary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreLiterary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
...more“I think if you are really doing the work, you can’t write about America and not explore race and slavery, and that goes for any writer.”
...moreWith impermanence and “praise for the devil” all around, it’s a gift to rediscover joy, no matter how fleeting.
...moreWednesday 7/26: Samantha Hunt discusses her new story collection, The Dark Dark, with Clary Sankey. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park. Andrew Sean Greer is launching his new novel, Less. Free, 7:30 p.m., Booksmith.
...moreJoshua Mohr discusses his memoir Sirens, writing for his daughter, and why he values art that trusts its audience.
...moreTo refuse to disappear at mid-life—I am forty-two as of the writing of this essay—is perhaps the best rebellion a woman poet can make to the literary world and to the world at large.
...morePutting her experiences into a broader context, [Bass] now saw, was essential to “creating openings for readers to enter her poems and for the poems to enter her readers.”
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Ada Limón about her new book Bright Dead Things, writing love poems in an age of cynicism, and committing to places.
...moreFormer Rumpus contributor Kaveh Akbar has launched a “collaborative poetry phenomenon,” Divedapper, a web based literary concern featuring interviews with contemporary poets. The site has launched with interviews with Dorianne Laux, Austin Straus, Rae Armantrout, and others. Divedapper is also available on Twitter @divedapper.
...moreIn honor of National Poetry Month, please check out poet Ali Liebegott’s wonderfully conducted interview with the eminent Dorianne Laux, where Laux sheds light on Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay for helping her hone her poetic craft. If I hadn’t been able to talk with myself, with respect, as a whole human being, […]
...more[O]ne of Laux’s strengths is her willingness to break through those poetic walls so many of us construct. She seems to want no distance between herself and her reader.
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