What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Women’s History Month.
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Posts Tagged: Natasha Trethewey
What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Black History Month!
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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What to Read When You Need to Understand Structural Inequity
There are many types of burns, but there is the cooling stream of joy.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Mothers
Rumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to celebrate mothers in all their complexity!
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Subtext Rising to the Surface: A Conversation with Matthew Olzmann
Poet Matthew Olzmann discusses his work with Julie Marie Wade.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors share their favorite writing that speaks to women’s history past, present, and future.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
Rumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to Black history past, present, and future.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Eve L. Ewing
Eve L. Ewing discusses her new collection, 1919.
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Notable Chicago: 4/19–4/25
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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What to Read When the Carnival Is Calling to You
Steph Post shares a list of books to celebrate her forthcoming novel, MIRACULUM.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey discusses her new collection, MONUMENT: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED.
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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Why I Chose Natasha Trethewey’s Monument for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Here’s what we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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What to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2018
Rumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
...moreNotable Chicago: 11/24–11/30
Literary events and readings in and around Chicago this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Feel Thankful
Kick off the holiday season with a list of books that Rumpus editors are thankful for!
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 15): “Southern History”
We can’t hide from our history and we can’t pass it on to future generations.
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What to Read When You Want to Make America Great Again
Here is a list of books that help remind us what actually makes America great (hint: it’s not tax cuts).
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On Grief and Inheritance: A Conversation with Brionne Janae
The poet Brionne Janae discusses her debut poetry collection After Jubilee, intergenerational trauma, and writing her way into historical personae.
...moreNotable Chicago: 1/27–2/2
Friday 1/27: Visit Women & Children First to celebrate the launch of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Marie Hicks. 7:30 p.m., free. Saturday 1/28: The fourth installment of the Chimera Reading Series is happening in Logan Square. 2421 W Medill Ave, 7 p.m., donations to 826CHI […]
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Of Poetry and Protest and Monticello In Mind
Barbara Berman reviews Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmitt Till to Trayvon Martin and Monticello In Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Crown for Gumecindo by Laurie Ann Guerrero
Diego Báez reviews Laurie Ann Guerrero’s A Crown for Gumecindo today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jonterri Gadson
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Jonterri Gadson about Blues Triumphant, her love of editing, and the intersection of poetry and comedy.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Phillip B. Williams
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Phillip B. Williams about his new book Thief in the Interior, form in poetry, and balancing editing work with one’s own.
...moreThe State of American Poetry
If you liked David Biepsiel’s State of American Poetry address, here’s a nice counterpart by Natasha Trethewey at the Virginia Quarterly Review. “Despair about the place of poetry in American culture is nothing new,” she begins, and goes on to write about the necessity and indelibility of poetry at the most basic levels: For all […]
...moreNatasha Trethewey Gulfing!
Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey is flexing her foreign diplomacy muscles in the Persian Gulf for National Poetry Month. On April 24, Trethewey will be participating in a public interview at the Abu Dhabi International Bookfair, to kick off the massive list of events they have planned. She will also be reading at American University of Sharjah a […]
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Thrall by Natasha Trethewey
Joey Connelly reviews Thrall by Natasha Trethewey.
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The Library of Congress has announced that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey. She is the first Southerner to hold the title since the original laureate, Robert Penn Warren, and the first black laureate since Rita Dove in 1993. “Ms. Trethewey’s great theme is memory, and in particular the way private recollection and public […]
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