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University of Georgia Press ($19.95)
Kinsale Drake’s debut poetry collection, The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket, composes a yucca-lined symphony of the lived and thriving groundwork of the Southwest, drawing on memory, music, and Diné poetics in the process. Each poem spreads…
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Rachel Robbins: There’s No There There | interviewed by April Gibson
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Ariana Reines
Divided Publishing ($16)
Ariana Reines’s intention for her journal-like book, Wave of Blood, was to document the period between the Libra and Aries eclipses of October 2023 and April 2024, a time during which she toured Europe for her loudly acclaimed previous title,
Michael Luo
Doubleday ($35)
In October 2016, an “Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back to China” appeared on the front page of The New York Times. Its author was…
Dan Nadel
Scribner ($35)
by Paul Buhle
Editor’s Note: Read Paul Buhle’s review of Existential Comics: Selected Stories 1979-2004 by R. Crumb, selected and with an introduction by Dan Nadel, in the Summer 2025 print issue of Rain Taxi.
So much time has passed since the brief…
April 23 through April 27, 2025
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Sunday, June 8, 2025
Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley #2 by Areca Roe
Areca Roe is an artist based in Mankato and Minneapolis, Minnesota. She uses photography as well as video, sculpture, and installation to explore the interface between the natural and human domains.
Roe is an Associate Professor of photography and video at Minnesota…
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 6:30pm
Milkweed Books
1011 S Washington Ave, Ste 107, Minneapolis
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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…
The Matrix
N. H. Pritchard
Primary Information ($20)
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N. H. Pritchard
DABA ($24)
N. H. Pritchard (1939-1996) was a New York-based artist and writer whose The Matrix Poems 1960-1970, originally published by Doubleday, has the significant distinction of remaining the most innovative one-author collection of…