Negotiating Girlhood: A Conversation with Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz discusses her debut memoir, ORDINARY GIRLS.
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Posts Tagged: migrant
Join the Writers for Migrant Justice Protest!
The organizers of Writers for Migrant Justice suggest books to read ahead of tomorrow’s events.
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Famed Indian bookseller Ram Advani has passed away at the age of 95. He had planned to continue visiting his shops until was 99. Elton John has a favorite Los Angeles bookstore: Book Soup. Seattle’s only bookstore dedicated to poetry is looking for a new owner. Open Books owner John Marshal is looking to retire, […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on her new book The Cosmopolites, the citizenship market, nearly getting deported in the Comoros, and learning to show up and wait.
...morePoet Laureate Grew Up a Migrant Worker, Seeing Poetry All Around Him
Those 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 […]
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