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Vincent Katz

Rain Taxi
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in conversation with Dobby Gibson

Thursday, June 12, 2025, 6:30pm
Milkweed Books
1011 S Washington Ave, Ste 107, Minneapolis
Free and open to the public!

Rain Taxi and Milkweed Books are delighted to welcome poet Vincent Katz to the Twin Cities! Katz will read from his newest collection, Daffodil and…

An Image Not a Book

Rain Taxi
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Kylan Rice
Parlor Press ($16.95)

by Jami Macarty

Kylan Rice’s debut collection An Image Not a Book takes its title from a line in Yeats’s 1917 dialogue poem “Ego Dominus Tuus” (which translates to “I am your Lord”), a phrase originating in turn from Dante’s La Vita Nuova. Rice’s poems…

At His Desk in the Past

Rain Taxi
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Franz Wright
Foundlings Press ($20)

by Jon Cone

The son of a literary giant who became a prolific and beloved poet himself, Franz Wright died in 2015. While Wright’s poems were unsparing in their examination of his troubled past, they often moved heroically towards light, reaching for the possibilities of…

Loving Sylvia Plath

Rain Taxi
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A Reclamation

Emily Van Duyne
W. W. Norton & Company ($27.99)

by Nic Cavell

Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath is a five-star act of reclamation, eschewing the densely plotted brilliance of Heather Clark’s 2020 biographical masterpiece Red Comet (Knopf) to prioritize a communicable ethic of care. This refreshing take…

Hailing Rain Taxi for years of service

Rain Taxi
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City Pages | Wednesday, September 17, 2008 by Ed Huyck

It's a common story in the arts. Young, fresh, and brash group hits the scene, be it a band or a theater company, a visual arts group or a magazine. The group burns white hot for a time—six months, a…

There's This Book You've Never Heard of

Rain Taxi
6 posts last month

but if you had heard of it, you'd really enjoy reading it, which is why this unusual book review, Rain Taxi, continues to exist against what truly are the longest of odds

by Keith Harris

Watch your head.

To reach the office, you've got to duck. Yes, that means you,…

Ecstatic Mundane: An Interview with Elaine Equi

Rain Taxi
6 posts last month

by Jim Feast

A mainstay of the New York literary scene since the late 1980s, Elaine Equi is known as a writer of aphoristic wit, philosophical depth, and visual precision. Her many books include Voice-Over (1999), which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems

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