Celebrating Stein
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein’s collection of poems, “Tender Buttons.” To celebrate the occasion, City Lights Book Publishers is putting out a new edition of the poet’s...
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show #8: Beth Bachmann
Beth Bachmann grew up just outside Philadelphia, the daughter of a shoe-shiner and locker room attendant. She is the author of Temper, a collection of poems about the murder of her sister, which won...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #70: Alien Now!
There are moments, these days, when I hear the popular song, and I think, uh, no thank you. When the ideas that originally motivated this column seem obscure to me, or quaint. When I feel as if...
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Feminism
This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and as our wise Managing Editor Lyz Lenz tweeted recently, “the perfect Mother’s Day gift is the end of the patriarchy.” While we can’t promise to shut down the patriarchy...
View ArticleMore Than Ordinary: If the House by Molly Spencer
“The poet speaks on the threshold of being,” writes Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. For Bachelard, the house represents a “concentration of intimacy,” offering a locus of scenes and images of...
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