From the Archive: Propelled by Questions: Animal by Dorothea Lasky
The animal spirit of poetry brings us closer to our own humanity.
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Posts Tagged: Dorothea Lasky
Notable Online: 4/18–4/24
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 11/22–11/28
Literary events taking place virtually 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 Twin Cities: 11/17–11/23
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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Notable Chicago: 11/8–11/14
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 11/6–11/12
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 11/4–11/10
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable NYC: 11/2–11/8
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Notable NYC: 10/26–11/1
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Notable NYC: 9/21–9/27
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Notable NYC: 6/1–6/7
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...moreNotable NYC: 4/14–4/20
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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A Curious Swarm or Energy: Talking with Rachel B. Glaser
Rachel B. Glaser discusses her newest poetry collection, HAIRDO, her writing process, and the books and writers that have influenced her.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #85: Elizabeth Metzger
I have known the poet Elizabeth Metzger since kindergarten—and ever since I have known her, she has been a poet. When we played the The Game of Life, a board game, she wrote small lyrics about the futures we ended the game with; when I had a crush, she wrote light verse about the boys […]
...moreIn This Hell Here With You
When people call other people crazy I don’t get mad, I get bored. When people tell me ghosts don’t exist, I just get bored. Over at JSTOR Daily, poet Dorothea Lasky writes about The Imagination, “a physical space that one shares with other people in and through poetry,” the palpable materiality of alternative existences (like […]
...moreNotable NYC: 4/4–4/10
Saturday 4/4: Dorothea Lasky, Lisa Cohen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Kate Zambreno, Marie Buck, and Gary Indiana celebrate the latest from Animal Shelter. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free. Lola Calise, Ian McLellan Davis, Lilya Davis, Morgan Forbes, and Hannah McMurray launch Issue 6 of harlequin creatures. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Cecillia Vicuna and Laurie Weeks join the […]
...moreDavid Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Dorothea Lasky v. Elizabeth Bishop
All of a sudden my inbox is filling up with links from friends to two essays related to poetry that have almost everything and nothing in common at once, and whose implications say a lot about how the art of poetry gets re- or de- artified. One is a link to an essay by Dorothea […]
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Thunderbird by Dorothea Lasky
Thunderbird is one of the more traditional collections I’ve come across recently, both in tone and in form. Lasky doesn’t experiment heavily with form, preferring to stick to free verse occasionally broken into stanzas. Lasky lets her words do the talking without being showy or flamboyant. This is my favorite type of contemporary poetry.
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