What to Read When You Want Reparations Now
Ashley M. Jones shares a reading list to celebrate REPARATIONS NOW!.
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Posts Tagged: Kevin Young
On Genre and Angle: A Conversation with Julia Koets
Julia Koets discusses her forthcoming poetry collection, PINE.
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Building and Building: Talking with Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones discusses her body of work, the future of poetry, and more.
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Masters of Movement: A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
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Deep, Wide, and Ridiculous: Talking with Diane Seuss
Diane Seuss discusses her most recent collection, STILL LIFE WITH TWO DEAD PEACOCKS AND A GIRL.
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Notable Chicago: 11/1–11/7
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 4/10–4/16
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Telling the Truth, Sideways: A Conversation with Tessa Fontaine
Tessa Fontaine discusses her debut memoir, THE ELECTRIC WOMAN.
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Notable San Francisco: 9/19–9/25
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreNotable Philadelphia: 4/24–4/30
Literary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
...moreNotable Twin Cities: 3/18–3/24
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 2/12–2/18
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 1/27–2/2
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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Congratulations to the NBCC Finalists!
We congratulate all of the NBCC finalists, and are especially pleased to have celebrated and featured the work of many of these writers on The Rumpus!
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We Have to Trust Our Punch: A Conversation with Kevin Young
Kevin Young discusses Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, America’s relationship to hoaxes, and what we can learn from that relationship.
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At the Intersection of Personal and Political: Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now edited by Amit Majmudar
American writers have a long, distinguished history of calling out injustice.
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Saturday 3/4: Peter Blackstock, senior editor at Grove Atlantic, curates Queer as Volk as part of the Festival Neue Literatur. Powerhouse Arena, 6 p.m, free. Timothy Liu and Christopher Salerno launch new books of poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Michael Nicoloff and Christopher Stackhouse join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. […]
...morePoetry in Motion
In honor of National Poetry Month, the Washington Post had ten designers create short animations to accompany excerpts of poems.
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“The Yellow Birds,” by Kevin Powers
The innocuous title of Kevin Powers’ debut novel The Yellow Birds is a reference to a military marching cadence. In its lyrics, as anyone who served in the military in recent decades might know, a peaceful bird is lured into a room and wantonly killed.
...morePoetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
It’s Saturday night, the skies are cloudy, and the satellite reception keeps cutting in and out. Guess it’s time for some poetry links. I don’t generally link to poetry reviews elsewhere, but the NY Times reviews poetry so rarely that I figured I ought to do it if only for the sake of novelty. It’s […]
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