What to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2020
Rumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
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Posts Tagged: ross gay
Frenetic, Excitable, and Direct: Sylvie Baumgartel’s Song of Songs
This poem lets her—the speaker and Baumgartel—be too much.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
Rumpus editors share share new and forthcoming collections we’re especially excited about!
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Be Holding
Ross Gay discusses the cover of his forthcoming book, Be Holding, plus an exclusive first look!
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Eric Tran
Eric Tran discusses his new collection, THE GUTTER SPREAD GUIDE TO PRAYER.
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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 Are Ready to Be Done Crying
Heather Christle shares a reading list to celebrate THE CRYING BOOK.
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Notable Portland: 11/7–11/13
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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The Rumpus Is Going to Portland!
The Rumpus celebrates literature at the Portland Book Festival!
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The Sacred Act of Art-Making: A Conversation with Patrick Coleman
Patrick Coleman discusses his debut novel, THE CHURCHGOER.
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A Complicated, Shifting Subjectivity: Talking with Franny Choi
Franny Choi discusses her second collection, SOFT SCIENCE.
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Notable Twin Cities: 5/5–5/11
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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Notable NYC: 4/6–4/12
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Twin Cities: 3/3–3/9
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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Notable NYC: 2/9–2/15
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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The Beautiful Mundane Is Everywhere: Talking with Ross Gay
Ross Gay discusses his forthcoming essay collection, THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kyle Dargan
Kyle Dargan discusses his new collection, ANAGNORISIS.
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Our Lady of Perpetual Movement: Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin
These speaker(s) don’t need to offer us explanation.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
Rumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month!
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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 and present.
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What to Read When You Want a Fresh Start
In keeping with the spirit of the New Year holiday, we’ve put together a list of books that deal with new beginnings—and the unexpected twists and turns that come after.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Iris Dunkle
Iris Jamahl Dunkle on her new collection Interrupted Geographies, writing against the pastoral tradition, the power of persona poems, and the town of Pithole.
...moreNotable NYC: 12/10–12/16
Saturday 12/10: Mike Albo, Sandra Bauleo, Alexander Chee, Marcy Dermansky, Natalie Diaz, Elif Batuman, Angela Flournoy, Jill Hennessy, Alice Sola Kim, Téa Obreht, Rosie Schaap, Elissa Schappell, Parul Sehgal, Jamil Smith, Rob Spillman, Emma Straub, Peter Straub, J. Courtney Sullivan, Marie-Helene Bertino, Ted Dodson, Chinelo Okparanta, Lisa Lucas and others read from Charles Dicken’s A […]
...moreThe Conversation: Prologue
Dear Reader, For the past year, we, Aziza Barnes and Nabila Lovelace, The Founders of The Conversation, debated how we could create space for folk we love, whose work is critical, in the South. We had been living in New York, which is regarded as something of a safe haven for the Black writer. In the heat of […]
...moreAn Interview with Ross Gay
Kaveh Akbar’s interview with author Ross Gay is delightfully honest. Gay, who is an author of three books: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, and, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, invites us into his world by sharing backstories about some of his work. I felt really happy to be done with Bringing the Shovel Down. I was very glad to have written […]
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What Eyes Does Your Poem Have?
And this is how poetry derives its power, its agency, by the ways it can direct the eye. But the poet has a different toolkit from a visual artist. The world of a poem builds incrementally: it grows, it accretes.
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Ross Gay
In Episode 9 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick talks with poet Ross Gay chats about his new collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, gardening, and “the discipline of joy.”
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Sharing with the Ants
of course your mind/goes there/loosey-goose that you are
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