Our Recognizable, Difficult, Earthly Kingdom: Such Color by Tracy K. Smith
Composition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.
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Posts Tagged: Tracy K Smith
Notable Online: 5/30–6/5
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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The Rumpus National Poetry Month Project 2021
This April, be inspired, be moved, and celebrate poetry!
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for How to Love the World
An exclusive look at the cover of the forthcoming anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD.
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Notable Online: 9/6–9/12
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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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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The Rumpus National Poetry Month Project 2020
This April, be inspired, be moved, and celebrate poetry!
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Notable Twin Cities: 11/17–11/23
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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What to Read When Your Life Feels Bifurcated
Judith Krummeck shares a reading list to celebrate her new book, OLD NEW WORLDS.
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Notable NYC: 6/1–6/7
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Chicago: 4/26–5/2
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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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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Notable Philadelphia: 3/26-4/1
Literary events in and around Philly this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 1/30–2/5
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/15–9/21
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable Twin Cities: 4/29–5/5
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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What to Read When 2018 Is Just Around the Corner
While we can’t promise that 2018 won’t find us facing more political upheaval, we can assure you that there will be great literature to offer moments of escape and inspiration.
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On Joy: Three Poetry Anthologies
With impermanence and “praise for the devil” all around, it’s a gift to rediscover joy, no matter how fleeting.
...moreNotable San Francisco: 11/1–11/7
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreNotable San Francisco: 10/25–10/31
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
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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.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #92: Bud Smith
It’s hard to say when I first became aware of Bud Smith’s writing. I’m sure it was online; his work is fairly ubiquitous here—an essay here, a poem there, a short story someplace else. He’s got a few books under his belt to boot, the stellar F-250 and Calm Face, as well as the most […]
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Corinne Lee and Finding an Antidote to America’s Toxicity
Poet Corinne Lee on writing her epic book-length poem Plenty and finding new ways to live in a rapidly changing world.
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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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The Rumpus Interview with Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi discusses her debut novel Homegoing, growing up in Alabama, the multiplicity of black experiences, the legacy of slavery, and her writing process.
...moreA Poet’s Prose
…while poems often proceed by way of large imaginative leaps, I found that prose urged me to stay put longer and extrapolate more. At Guernica, Christopher Kondrich and Tracy K. Smith talk about differences between poetry and prose, and writing grief and memory in Smith’s memoir Ordinary Light. Smith describes how she toggles between genres, […]
...moreDoes Poetry Matter?
Yesterday’s New York Times posed this question to poetry superstars Tracy K. Smith, Martin Espada, William Logan, Paul Muldoon, Sandra Beasley, Patrick Rosal, and our own David Biespiel. Whether by “educat[ing] the senses,” combatting irony, or “ritualiz[ing] human life,” suffice it to say, the answer is Yes.
...morePoetry Book Club News
Our April poet, Carmen Giménez Smith, was featured on NPR’s NewsPoet series. (NewsPoet has featured Rumpus Poetry Book Club poet and recent Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith as well.) Check it out. And if you’d like to become a member of the Poetry Book Club–we’re talking about Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s collection The Ground right […]
...moreCelebrate Poetry (Tonight!)
Knopf and Tumblr are presenting a celebration of poetry tonight at Housing Works Bookstore in NYC. The event will feature Poet Laureate Philip Levine and 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy K. Smith, along with poets from the Tumblr community, Saeed Jones and Karolina Manko.
...moreHappy Birthday Tracy K. Smith!
That’s one hell of a birthday present, there. A Pulitzer Prize! We’d like to point out that The Rumpus Poetry Book Club had an idea of just how awesome this book was even before it officially came out. Not that we’re bragging or anything. (You can join the Rumpus Poetry Book Club by clicking here.)
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