Notable Los Angeles: 1/27–2/2
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Posts Tagged: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
What to Read When You’re Crip and Unafraid
Meg Day and Niki Herd share a reading list to celebrate LAURA HERSHEY: ON THE LIFE & WORK OF AN AMERICAN MASTER.
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Notable Chicago: 2/22–2/28
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #87: Kai Cheng Thom
Rarely is birth silent for anyone involved. Silence, instead, is a learned phenomena. Unlearning silence can become its own birth, as it seems in Kai Cheng Thom’s debut poetry collection a place called No Homeland, opening with, “diaspora babies, we are born of pregnant pauses.” Pausing for readers to meet her at this natal location […]
...moreBeyond A Year of Women Writers
Recently, we blogged about Lilit Marcus’s project to read only books by women for a year. That year taught her a lot, but there was one hitch: at the end, she realized that “of the 40 books I read this year, only six were by women of color. Still fewer were by queer women.” If […]
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