The Meaning Is in the Scale: Talking with David Adjmi
David Adjmi discusses his new memoir, LOT SIX.
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Posts Tagged: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
The Rumpus National Poetry Month Project 2020
This April, be inspired, be moved, and celebrate poetry!
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Eric Tran
Eric Tran discusses his new collection, THE GUTTER SPREAD GUIDE TO PRAYER.
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Notable Portland: 3/7–3/13
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors select writing that speaks to women’s history—past, present, and future.
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Living in the Realm of the Subconscious: Talking with Melissa Fraterrigo
Melissa Fraterrigo discusses her new novel-in-stories, Glory Days, writing speculative fiction, and how our formative years influence us later in life.
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What to Read When It’s Time for Sports
Just a “heads up” (as they say in the sports world): this isn’t your average sports list.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Gabrielle Calvocoressi discusses her new collection Rocket Fantastic, the fluid nature of gender, and the reader as collaborator with the text.
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What to Read When You Need Some Good News
Take a quick break from the apocalyptic news and end your week with this list of books to eagerly anticipate (assuming the world doesn’t end) instead!
...moreWhy I Chose Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s Rocket Fantastic for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s third collection, Rocket Fantastic, is a beautiful book which asks the reader to live in a world where gender and language are both fluid and linked together in a dance which swings, sways, and surprises at every turn. I’ve been a fan of Calvocoressi’s work for a long time, having taught both her previous books […]
...moreWhy I Chose Adrian Matejka’s Map to the Stars for March Poetry Book Club
It started, as it often does, with a recommendation from a friend, in this case Gabrielle Calvocoressi. She sent me an email saying “You have to look at this book.” I would have anyway, because I’ve been a fan of Adrian Matejka’s work for a long time, and in fact, I wanted his last book, The […]
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 21: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Four Long Years At Court I really miss the forest. And how I used to hide there with the Queen. I miss how we used to dance and how we’d run from Court.
...more“The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself”
Why did my mother kill herself and I didn’t that year and have not?…I ask myself at the farmer’s market when David shows me the black radishes that I use in risotto or when Sarah takes me to the ranch and the horses press in on me so I’m nothing but warmth and breath and […]
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THE NEXT LETTER IN THE MAIL: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
The next Letter in the Mail, going out early next week, is from Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea. 2005) and Apocalyptic Swing (Persea. 2009), which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Aase Berg, Johannes Göransson and Garth Graeper
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aase Berg and translator Johannes Göransson about the poetry collection Transfer Fat. We are also joined this month by Garth Graeper of Ugly Duckling Presse, who published Transfer Fat.
...moreConquering Hero
That’s (part of) the title of this piece on the PEN Center website by Rumpus Poetry Book Club Board member Gabrielle Calvocoressi. It’s absolutely beautiful. Here’s a short sample: “I’m really glad I had that lousy job because I know what it is to make someone copies at the last minute and to be told […]
...moreBack Out of All This Now I Am An Animal Full of Music: Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World
“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?” — Emily Webb Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Michael Klein
Michael Klein is an award-winning poet and author whose poetry collections 1990 and Poets for Life are winners of the Lambda Literary Book Award. He lives in New York City and teaches memoir writing in the summer program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
...moreThe Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Come catch up! Highlights from this week in Rumpus books are below the fold.
...more“Every Person in This Town Loves Football” a Rumpus Original Poem by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
“Every Person in This Town Loves Football” Even the nuns come out to watch the boys in their gold and blue. Sister Marita, Sister Anne, and some weeks
...moreThe Rumpus Original Combo with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
“The opposite of transcendence (to me) is simply anyone who just makes pronouncements or qualifies themselves without doing the deep, ongoing work of inquiry.”
...morePoetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Happy Saturday everyone. So Missouri Governor Jay Nixon wants a Poet Laureate for the state who doesn’t have anything in his or her background that might embarrass him. I take it he doesn’t know many poets. Connecticut is looking for a Poet Laureate too. No word on embarrassment restrictions. Did you miss the off-site MLA […]
...moreNotable South Florida, This Week 11/14-11/20
This weekend in south Florida, all the cultural talk is about the Miami Book Fair, and while it is generally dominated by the same sort of pop culture excrescence one might expect, there are also some really great writers taking part as well, especially this weekend. The Miami New Times has been doing some interviews […]
...morePoetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Jim Murdoch’s piece on the reader’s responsibility to breathe life into poems is fascinating. At the very least, it’s a good metaphor for people who teach poetry to those who don’t read it much. Here’s a look back–way back–at some really early poetry. C. Dale Young gives you a little taste of Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s new […]
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