Notable Philadelphia: 4/17–4/23
Literary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
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A Book of Absences: Jehanne Dubrow’s Dots & Dashes
[W]hat’s so startling about these poems is how Dubrow spends her poetic energies grappling with the classical treatments of the past to thrilling and unexpected effects.
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Visitations: Gwendolyn Brooks at One Hundred
A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
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The Rumpus Interview with Colin D. Halloran
Writer and former US Army infantryman Colin D. Halloran on his new collection, Icarian Flux, how he used experimental narrative to explore his life with PTSD, and why he doesn’t want to be known only as a “war poet.”
...morePoetry Shark
I like to joke that I’m like a shark—my writing has to keep moving or it will die. Ploughshares interviews Jehanne Dubrow about her latest poetry collection, The Arranged Marriage, and her shark-like writing process.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sandra Beasley
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Sandra Beasley about her new book Count the Waves, sestinas, and how actions can serve as signposts in the time stream.
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The Arranged Marriage by Jehanne Dubrow
Julie Marie Wade reviews Jehanne Dubrow’s The Arranged Marriage today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Grant Snider considers New Year’s resolutions in his inimitable way. Then, Barbara Berman draws a connection between two recent poetry collections—famous German playwright Bertold Brecht’s posthumous Love Poems and The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems About Perfume, edited by Jehanne Dubrow and Lindsay Lusby. Each poem in the latter makes sense of scents in a […]
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The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems About Perfume and Love Poems by Bertolt Brecht
Barbara Berman reviews The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems About Perfume and Bertolt Brecht’s Love Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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