What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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Posts Tagged: Jane Hirshfield
Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for How to Love the World
An exclusive look at the cover of the forthcoming anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD.
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The Hope of Time: Talking with Judith H. Montgomery
Judith H. Montgomery discusses her latest poetry collection, MERCY.
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Any Moment Is a Door: Nadia Colburn’s The High Shelf
Again, the red door stands open, allowing the world to enter.
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Notable San Francisco: 3/11–3/17
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 2/12–2/18
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 1/15–1/21
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 10/16–10/22
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Faith and Identity: Fireworks in the Graveyard by Joy Ladin
To “ameliorate” the desire for death or the sense of self-annihilation, Ladin finds in religion a way of reconciliation, not only within herself, but also with her community and society at large.
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Reinforcing the Resistance, Aiding the Anxious: Three Poetry Anthologies
Barbara Berman reviews three social justice oriented poetry anthologies today at The Rumpus.
...moreNotable San Francisco: 11/8–11/14
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Wednesday 1/11: Passages on the Lake (hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts) presents Daphne Gottlieb, Sonya Renee Taylor, Tracey Knapp, Derrick Carr, and Haldane King. Free, 7 p.m., The Terrace Room. Shanthi Sekaran (The Prayer Room) reads from her new novel, Lucky Boy. Free, 7:30 p.m., Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore. Thursday 1/12: Why There Are Words celebrates its […]
...moreNotable Chicago: 12/2–12/8
Friday 12/2: Poetry Night at City Lit Books! Valerie Hsiung, author of the new book e f g: a trilogy, will be reading from her work, along with Julia Cohen, Hannah Brooks-Motl, and Toby Altman. 6:30 p.m., free. Laura Jane Grace, lead singer of Against Me! reads from her memoir, TRANNY: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar discusses Singaporean poetry in the last fifty years, Hindu mythology, translation, and his complicated relationship to his heritage.
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Reckoning with the Bros: Trump, Bly, and Swimming in the Sea of Grief
There are dark forces roiling beneath the surface of American life.
...moreA Girl Asleep in a Dream of Herself in a Dream
Gothic dreamscapes and hypnotic investigations of the self beguile the reader of Monica Ferrell’s debut collection.
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