Bright Buoy, Dark Sea: Kelli Russell Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides
Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.
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...moreAn exclusive look at the cover of the forthcoming anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreBarbara Berman reviews three social justice oriented poetry anthologies today at The Rumpus.
...moreWith impermanence and “praise for the devil” all around, it’s a gift to rediscover joy, no matter how fleeting.
...moreWednesday 3/1: Journalist L.A. Kauffman, (The Nation, Mother Jones, The Baffler, etc.) reads from Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism. Free, 7 p.m., City Lights. Poet Kendra Tanacea launches her debut collection, A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees, from Lost Horse Press. She will be joined by Tracey Knapp and Peter Kline. […]
...moreThe Rumpus Book Club chats with Zoe Zolbrod about her new book The Telling, pushing against victim narratives, how the conversation surrounding sexual abuse has evolved, and the melding of research with memoir.
...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.”
...moreJulie Enszer reviews Ellen Bass’s Like a Beggar today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreIt might be snowing outside, but April is still National Poetry Month, and Tin House has a wonderful interview up with poet Ellen Bass. Read about her writing routine, the Miss America Pageant, expectations, and what it was like to study with Anne Sexton, here. Poetry is such a good medium for coming to terms with expectations and disappointments. […]
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