A Year In Rumpus Book Reviews 2020
A look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
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...moreBarbara Berman reviews Every Day We Get More Illegal, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, and The Park.
...moreFrancisco Aragón discusses his new book, AFTER RUBÉN.
...moreThe obscenities and tragedies of American life pile up with speed, and in quantities, that are appalling.
...moreLiterary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
...moreIn a new poem titled “@ the Crossroads: A Sudden American Poem,” US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reacts to last week’s violence by asking the reader to consider the men who were killed, their names, their faces, “the stories they often spoke.” Herrera previously responded to a shooting at UCLA, his alma mater, with […]
...moreEverything make sense if you’re an artist. At the Dallas Observer, Caroline North exchanged a few words with current US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, who is kicking off his second term with a book tour and several forthcoming projects, including The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon, a series of coloring books written by and for […]
...moreI’m spending National Poetry Month at the Millay Colony, former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My colleague and friend, poet and writer Jen Fitzgerald, will be writing the Mixtape column this month—and we are all lucky for it. Enjoy Jen’s robust selections and I’ll see you in May.
...moreBarbara Berman reviews Juan Felipe Herrera’s Notes From the Assemblage today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreJuan Felipe Herrera is at the top of his game…He served as California’s Poet Laureate from 2012-2014, the first Latino poet to hold that post. He’s also the first Latino to be U.S. Poet Laureate. He’s the only child of migrant workers, and has five children of his own. He got his MFA from the […]
...moreThose are some deep landscapes of mountains and grape fields and barns and tractors; families gathering at night to have little celebrations in the mountains and aquamarine lakes way down below. So, see, all that is like living in literature every day. Juan Felipe Herrera, who became the new US poet laureate on Tuesday, talks […]
...moreCongratulations to Juan Felipe Herrera and August Kleinzahler on their shared National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 2008. Barbara Jane Reyes has more on Herrera. Ron Silliman on on anthologies: “It is all but impossible to even characterize the map of poetry today. If this were the 1950s, a quarter of America’s poets […]
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