Notable San Francisco: 9/12–9/18
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Posts Tagged: Randall Mann
Notable Los Angeles: 7/3–7/9
Wednesday 7/5: Literary Pachanga presents Jesus Tevino, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Christine Granados. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books. Thursday 7/6: William Daniels discusses and signs There I Go Again: How I Came to Be Mr. Feeny, John Adams, Dr. Craig, Kitt, and Many Others. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
...moreNotable San Francisco: 6/14–6/20
Wednesday 6/14: Alex Dimitrov (Together and By Ourselves, Copper Canyon Press) and Randall Mann (Proprietary: Poems, Persea Press). Free, 7 p.m., City Lights Bookstore. Christopher Bernard presents his new book Chien Lunatique, along with poets Keith Ekiss and Clara Hsu. Free, 7:30 p.m., Booksmith.
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National Poetry Month Day 22: Randall Mann
Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month by running new poems from poets we admire. We feature a different poet each day, and aim to illustrate the variety in voices and styles of poetry being written today.
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 25: Randall Mann
Letters from Satilla Diann Blakely, 1957-2014 1. Have you read Andrew Hudgins’ After the Lost War or even Sidney Lanier’s “The Marshes of Glynn”?
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Straight Razor by Randall Mann
D. Gilson reviews Randall Mann’s Straight Razor today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Randall Mann
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Randall Mann about his new book Straight Razor, Fleet Week, Hart Crane, and Naked Poetry.
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 2: “To Mercury, In Retrograde” by Randall Mann
To Mercury, In Retrograde This ointment isn’t helping. This clinic isn’t free. The nurse’s favorite movie is Penitentiary III.
...moreNational Poetry Month, Day 14: “The Lion’s Mouth” by Randall Mann
The Lion’s Mouth I walk into a stanza. There’s decent gin here; the men are critically tanned in winter. The gin kicks in;
...moreThree Poems by Randall
Poet and Rumpus pal Randall Mann has posted three poems over at The Nepotist.
...moreNational Poetry Month: Day 25. “Errata” by Randall Mann
Errata I’m a little punchy after all the lines and torture-lite. And since this isn’t glitter underneath my nails, pass me an emery board and the strip brush—
...moreThe Lightness of Sidney Wade
Her lightness is not merely pointing out the details of the world but showing us that without the glory of the everyday, the parsnip, for instance, there can be no weight lifted.
...moreRandall Mann: A Poem I Love
The last poem I loved is John Casteen’s fifteen-line poem “Regret,” from his first collection, Free Union. Here’s the first stanza: This life, it is like conducting the symphony of a warring country; the cellist has been shot through the wrist it’s all in, the horn player has buried his child and sworn off music. […]
...moreThe Naked City
Randall Mann’s second collection of poems explores desire and death in the City by the Bay.
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