Unbearable Whiteness
Elisa Gabbert asks the hard questions for Electric Literature: When the VIDA counts come out and multiple publications are shown to publish far more men than women (with the numbers for POC…
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Consider the Paragraph
Paragraphs just might be the most underrated writing tool. Over at Smart Set, Elisa Gabbert points out how the use of paragraphs makes a difference in writing literature.
Over 300 Characters
At Electric Literature, Elisa Gabbert’s finally collected what we never knew we needed: a compendium of the year’s most essential literary tweets.
Table Talk
At The Believer Logger, 14 writers sat down with Elisa Gabbert to talk reading, writing, reading without writing, writing in the midst of reading, willfully neglecting both, dutifully submitting to one…
The Self Unstable by Elisa Gabbert
Brian Pera reviews Elisa Gabbert's The Self Unstable today in Rumpus Poetry.
National Poetry Month Day 11: “The History of Asterisks” by Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney
The History of Asterisks It is midnight under the sky’s dome ceiling. The moon speaks, saying nothing of consequence. John Wayne is from Iowa, so we hitchhiked West and I…
Got Plans Tonight?
You do now. Join occasional Rumpus contributors Elisa Gabbert and Sommer Browning as they live-tweet “The Shining,” tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, 6:00 p.m. Pacific. Why don’t I include the…
“Southern Wind, Clear Sky”: A Rumpus Original Poem by Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney
Southern Wind, Clear Sky – Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney
National Poetry Month Day 12: “Semi-Aubade” by Elisa Gabbert
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. Semi-Aubade When I wake in…
It Ninja-Stars Me
The voice that animates The French Exit is smart and philosophically dexterous, capable of showing the self to be a fetish-object of its own and also a refractive subject of…
National Poetry Month: Day 8. Three Poems by Elisa Gabbert
We Have Lost Our Systems of Meaning If it’s cool to be a geek, we have lost our systems of meaning. This was always the goal. We seek methods of…