Notable San Francisco: 10/10–10/16
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Posts Tagged: Terese Svoboda
Notable San Francisco: 9/12–9/18
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Feminism
We here at The Rumpus matriarchy are celebrating all of our feminist “mothers” this Mother’s Day!
...moreNotable NYC: 3/11–3/17
Saturday 3/11: Carolyn Hembree, Neil Shepard, and Terese Svoboda read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Chris Tysh and Cole Swensen join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 3/12: Joshua Mohr discusses his memoir Sirens with Charles Bock. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
...moreNotable NYC: 1/21–1/27
Saturday 1/21: Women’s March on New York City. Resist. On Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th St and 2nd Ave, 11 am, free. Eléna River, Ryan Collerd, and Carol Snow discuss works of poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Mahogany L Browne, Purvi Shah, and Lauren Whitehead join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. […]
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Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet by Terese Svoboda
Julie Enszer reviews Terese Svoboda’s Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Terese Svoboda
Poet Terese Svoboda talks about her biography of the socialist-anarchist firebrand and modernist poet Lola Ridge, Anything That Burns You, and remembers a time when the political was printed in newspapers.
...moreBefore Virginia Woolf, There Was Lola Ridge
At The New Republic, Terese Svoboda discusses “the forgotten feminism of Lola Ridge,” a radical poet who she says paved the way for feminist writers like Woolf with her 1919 speech “Women and Creative Will.”
...moreDavid Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Roaring Editors
The Academy of American Poets is featuring Terese Svoboda’s generous tribute to a relatively unknown 1920’s proletariat poet, Lola Ridge. Svoboda isn’t just knocked out by Ridge. She compares her in a single breath to H. D., Emily Dickinson, and Philip Levine. That’s some trifecta. Svoboda hails Ridge as a poet devoted to the struggles […]
...moreHere Are Some Stories Seth Likes
It’s Monday morning, so here’s some links to some wonderful very short writing that made my day better and hopefully makes your day better too. Also, in a side note, I’m very sad to learn that > kill author will be closing down, but I’m excited to read the last issue on Wednesday. “My husband’s […]
...moreNotable New York, This Week 12/14 – 12/20
This week in New York, lit mags The Faster Times, The Rumpus, Gigantic and Open City throw holiday parties, James Gallery holds Pornography in the City panel, Nick Flynn and Joseph Fasano read at Projection, LDM holds Holiday Episode, Stephen Elliott discusses the making of memoir, the Bloodsugars perform, Quentin Tarantino talks, Gabriel Orozco gets […]
...moreTerese Svoboda Talks to Heartsrevolution
I recently came across The Largehearted Boy Cross-Media Exchange Program, a forum for musicians and authors to speak to each other. Aside from being an awesome project in its own right, I came across the following exchange between Terese Svoboda and Ben Pollock and Leyla Safai of Heartsrevolution. Reading it made me optimistic about the future […]
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