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Announcing the January Pick for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
January’s pick for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club is A Beautiful Name for a Girl by Kirsten Kaschock. It’s from Ahsahta Press, and it’s Kaschock’s second collection of poems. For a sample of her work,...
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The Rumpus Poetry Club Interviews Kirsten Kaschock
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kirsten Kaschock about her book A Beautiful Name for a Girl.This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with Kirsten Kaschock. Every month The...
View ArticleNational Poetry Month, Day 3: “Why I Did Not Make Love to Your Dead Body” by...
Kirsten Kaschock’s A Beautiful Name For a Girl was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s January selection. You can read the book club’s interview of her here, and you can find an extended bio at her webpage...
View ArticleThe Last Poem I Loved: “Minor Poem” by Bill Knott
Lately, I’ve been feeling full-circlish. As a result, I am choosing to publicly acknowledge the-last-poem-I-loved’s similarity to the first poem that made me want to be a poet. They were both written...
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The Rumpus Interview with Kirsten Kaschock
I met Kirsten Kaschock twelve years ago when we were new graduate students in creative writing in the Syracuse University MFA program—she, in poetry; I, in fiction. She was pregnant at the time; a few...
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The Dottery by Kirsten Kaschock
Kirsten Kaschock’s The Dottery is a book-length meditation on the constructed nature of femininity. The “Dottery” – daughtery – “houses women before they are conceived,” and dotters are messy and...
View ArticleNotable Philadelphia: 9/4–9/10
Wednesday 9/5: Kelly Writers House kicks off their fall programming with a reading by contributors to the anthology Who Will Speak for America?. Come hear from Cynthia Arrieu-King, Cynthia Atkins,...
View ArticleNotable Philadelphia: 12/11-12/17
Tuesday 12/11: The All but True series will present readings by Katherine Locke and Nova Ren Suma! 6 p.m. at Penn Book Center. Tune in to PhillyCAM to watch the latest installment in the Philly Loves...
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Notable Online: 5/2–5/9
Sunday 5/2: Ae Hee Lee, Francisco Aragón, Tina Cane, Kerrin McCadden, Dan Chiasson, and Kazim Ali, with guest host Wayne Miller, join the Mercy Street Readings. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, $6 suggested donation....
View ArticleThe Scent of Man: Cameron MacKenzie’s River Weather
It is difficult to read stories that might have been written about people from your childhood, your brothers, your early idols, first boyfriends. It is also easy. The characters in Cameron MacKenzie’s...
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