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...moreWe celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreA weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
...moreTuesday 1/24: Brad Schreiber reads from and signs Revolution’s End. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. The Atlantic‘s James Hamblin presents his new book If Our Bodies Could Talk, joined in conversation with illustrator Hallie Bateman. 7:30 p.m. at The Last Bookstore. Thursday 1/26: Manjula Martin discusses her book Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a […]
...moreToday in Rumpus Books, Elizabeth Stark reviews Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, edited by Manjula Martin.
...moreMy responsibility is to not be negligent and cause unnecessary harm. To a listener or reader. My allegiance is only to truth.
...moreFirst, say hello to our new Saturday media editor, Arielle Bernstein! Then, in “All The World’s A Stage,” Grant Snider neatly illustrates our inner performer. Poet Kent Shaw marvels at the “glandular muscularity” of water as a theme in Harmony Holiday’s dual book, A Famous Blues/Go Find Your Father. Jazz voicing accentuates the father/daughter relationship at […]
...moreKent Shaw reviews Harmony Holiday’s A Famous Blues / Go Find Your Father today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Harmony Holiday about her debut collection Negro League Baseball.
...moreHarmony Holiday, the poet pick for this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book selection, was featured in the Boston Review for National Poetry Month, this past April. There are multi-sensory ways to experience her poetry and thus more reasons to get excited about reading her work (it comes with an audio component). Her recently published Negro League […]
...moreRumpus Poetry Club Board Member Gabrielle Calvocoressi on why she chose Harmony Holiday’s Negro League Baseball as the June selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
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