Notable San Francisco: 2/6–2/12
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Posts Tagged: Forrest Gander
Notable San Francisco: 1/9–1/15
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 12/5–12/11
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreNotable Portland: 4/5–4/11
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
...moreIt’s Pigsty I
Nomura plays with language in radical and diverse ways, employing subtleties of rhythm, semantics, image, gender, punctuation, and repetition, often all within the same short stanza.
...morePoetry Series Suspended
UC California Press is facing cutbacks, and their New California Poetry series is taking the hit. The series, because each title sells only around 1,000 copies, has been suspended. Even after the semi-recent publication of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, which quickly attained bestseller status, UC California Press is feeling the structural changes that have […]
...moreThe Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Man, Rumpus Books has been busy. This week, we published quite a number of must-read reviews, excerpts, interviews, and even a reprint, all conveniently rounded up for you below the fold.
...moreNational Poetry Month: Day 30. From “The Tinajera Notebook” by Forrest Gander
From “The Tinajera Notebook Synthesized with a common helplessness. Fined-down by the exorbitant demand of work, surrounded, inundated with chatter as the zócalo is when grackles descend en masse whirring, wheedling, scrawking. For us, every hour has become that hour of riotous distraction swallowing us when we leave for the clinic or my translation job […]
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Forrest Gander
“As a writer, I’m interested in trying to get to the complexity of experience. For me, that has led—in poetry—to counterpoint, polyrhythms, and clausal layering.”
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