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Notable Twin Cities: 2/10–2/16

  • Abby Anderson
  • February 10, 2019
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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An Invisible World: Tomas Tranströmer’s The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems (Expanded Edition)

  • Aaron Belz
  • March 9, 2018
The poem, [Tranströmer] seems to say, doesn’t have to carry every burden of its poet’s heart. It doesn’t need to speak out loud, either.
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It’s Only a Matter of Time: A Conversation with Jack Driscoll

  • Patricia Ann McNair
  • November 24, 2017
Jack Driscoll discusses The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot, "the impermanence of everything," and how he chooses his characters' names.
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The Rumpus Interview with Connie Wanek

  • Alex Dueben
  • September 9, 2016
Connie Wanek discusses her latest book, Rival Gardens: New and Selected Poems, the challenge of looking back at older poems, and what prioritizing writing looks like.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ravi Shankar

  • Ann van Buren
  • June 13, 2016
Ravi Shankar discusses Singaporean poetry in the last fifty years, Hindu mythology, translation, and his complicated relationship to his heritage.
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Reckoning with the Bros: Trump, Bly, and Swimming in the Sea of Grief

  • Wendy Willis
  • May 10, 2016
There are dark forces roiling beneath the surface of American life.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Dugout

  • David Biespiel
  • April 19, 2016
So much of politics is symbolic speech in the service of the syncopations of the lives we actually live. But the ways we gather to vote is with our bodies. It’s the dance that goes along with those rhythms.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poem as Whistling Father

  • David Biespiel
  • April 28, 2015
Isn't it worth wondering, then, where does a poem take you after it calls you in, calls you from your life into your creative psyche?
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Stealing Sugar From the Castle: Selected Poems 1950–2013 by Robert Bly

  • Damon Marbut
  • November 27, 2013
Damon Ferrell Marbut reviews Robert Bly's Stealing Sugar From the Castle: Selected Poems 1950 - 2013" today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Would You Do That Again?

  • Taylor Hagood
  • July 6, 2011
In short, the book offers the expert work of an expert: it is as if Bly is writing messages against the sky using not a plane but his own flawless…
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