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What to Read When the World Is Ending
We are only five days away from the midterm elections. Five weeks ago, Christine Blasey Ford testified in front the Senate and the country to her certainty that Brett Kavanaugh had attempted to...
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Constellations of Identity: A Conversation with J. Michael Martinez
The poetry collection Museum of the Americas, published last month by Penguin, is the third book by J. Michael Martinez. It was selected for the National Poetry Series by Cornelius Eady, and was on the...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Marwa Helal
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Marwa Helal about her debut collection Invasive species, how the book found its structure, and the feelings of displacement that accompany immigration. This is an...
View ArticleNotable Twin Cities: 3/10-3/16
Sunday 3/10: Come enjoy a discussion of Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems by Sonia Sanchez. SubText Books, 3 p.m., free. Monday 3/11: Alex Kotlowitz will present his newest book, An American...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 10/23–10/29
Wednesday 10/23: Lara Prescott will be reading from The Secrets We Kept. Book Passage in Corte Madera at 7 p.m. Lawrence Weschler will be discussing And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir...
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What Am I Fighting For?: A Conversation with Deborah A. Miranda
Deborah A. Miranda is the author of four collections of poetry, Indian Cartography (Greenfield Review Press, 1999), The Zen of La Llorona (Salt Publishing, 2005), Raised by Humans (Tia Chucha, 2015),...
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What to Read When It’s Time to Celebrate Commemorate Observe Presidents Day
Over a decade ago, I realized that I couldn’t name all of the American presidents, and so, to remedy that, I read a biography of each one, in order, which is maybe the less efficient way of doing so....
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
Gabrielle Bates, I. S. Jones, and Erin Marie Lynch are three emerging poets who have transformed my writing life. Their work is also connected—by threads of hunger, loneliness, and reclamation. I am...
View ArticleTo Set Asunder: The Separation and Synthesis of Tiana Nobile’s Cleave
Tension and opposition are at the heart of Tiana Nobile’s debut poetry collection, Cleave. In Cleave, Nobile merges her own history as a Korean American adoptee with the wider experience of...
View ArticleOur Recognizable, Difficult, Earthly Kingdom: Such Color by Tracy K. Smith
In Such Color, her newest collection of poetry, Tracy K. Smith has given her readers a generous selection of poems from her previous four books as well as eighteen new poems. Reading it, I was...
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