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Jenna Le: The Last Book I Loved, The Handmaid’s Tale
My boyfriend sometimes says things like, “Back in high school, I was a theater geek.” What he means is that he attended acting camps during all his summer vacations, and he played juicy supporting...
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A Woman Without a Country by Eavan Boland
A perennial theme in poetry is the meaning of words like nationality and citizenship. Today, in the early years of the twenty-first century, as globalization settles into being an uncomfortable but...
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Sunday Mornings at the Caffe Mediterraneum by Wendy Sloan
Dramatic events of past weeks have highlighted the pivotal role attorneys play in the project of American democracy, from hastily convened gatherings in airport terminals, to the judge’s bench, to the...
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Beauty Undercut by the Possibility of Terror: Afterland by Mai Der Vang
Afterland, the fractured, jagged-toothed debut of American poet Mai Der Vang, was selected by judge Carolyn Forché as the 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award, the Academy of American Poets’s...
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Both Beauty and Horror: Water & Salt by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Water & Salt is the debut collection of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, an American poet of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian descent. The collection takes its title from Tuffaha’s ode to the thousands of...
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2019
AWP is almost upon us! Next week, over 12,000 attendees—writers, editors, publishers, teachers, students, and book lovers—will descend upon Portland, OR for four days of literary madness. The...
View ArticleNotable Philadelphia: 3/10–3/16
(Events are being canceled or postponed ongoing. Please check with with an event venue for confirmation that an event is still on. And, if you’re not feeling well, stay home and rest—and order books...
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