The posthumous publication of Neeli Cherkovski’s "Selected Poems: 1959-2022” (Lithic Press) represents his long overdue recognition as one of the most essential poets of the Beat Generation. New review by Zack Kopp in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/selected-poems…

On Sat 8/17, find us at @autopticfest, Minneapolis's premier comic and independent print arts festival! We'll be displaying our own chapbooks and broadsides, plus an array of graphic lit, comics, art books, RT merch, and more. We hope to see you there! autoptic.org

Thirty years after Charles Bukowski’s passing, his spirit still looms large. To commemorate the author's birthday, Abel Debritto offers a thumbnail retrospective primer on the entirety of Bukowski’s prolific literary output: raintaxi.com/57-snapshots-i…

“Cherkovski writes poetry as if to give the very letters on the page back their lives by turning them into trees again—albeit in a whole other spirit.” In Rain Taxi, Zack Kopp reviews Neeli Cherkovski’s poetry collection “Selected Poems: 1959-2022” - raintaxi.com/selected-poems…

We’re thrilled to announce the first two bookend events of Rain Taxi's 2024 #TCBF! Debut authors Katherine Packert Burke and Alejandro Puyana🇻🇪 will present their new novels at Magers & Quinn on Sept 11 & 12 in a double-header kickoff to our Festival season. Free to attend! twincitiesbookfestival.com/festival-event…

Poet Gillian Conoley discusses intuition as structure, auras as veils, catastrophe’s upsides, texts vs. phone calls, and the curiosity cabinet of items in her latest collection, "Notes from the Passenger" (Nightboat Books), with Emily Simon: raintaxi.com/free-floating-…

Working on the newest comic for Rain Taxi so I can share last quarter's now. An illustration of a poem by Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan (غسان زقطان) translated by Fady Joudah

The first full English translation of “galáxias” (UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE), the magnum opus of Brazilian luminary Haroldo de Campos, is an absolute triumph. New review by Elizabeth Zuba in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/galaxias/

Are you taking public transit to the MN State Fairgrounds this week? You can do so again for the Twin Cities Book Festival on October 19th! #TCBF sponsor Metro Transit is providing free passes for our big event — get yours here: surveymonkey.com/r/2024TCBookFe…

Antonin Artaud was born on this day in 1896. If you haven’t read the interview with Artaud translator Peter Valente in Rain Taxi's current Online Edition, the fates are telling you to do it now! raintaxi.com/criticism-by-t…

THIS WEEK: Our Twin Cities Book Festival Bookend Events begin with two back-to-back readings!  Debut authors Katherine Packert Burke and Alejandro Puyana🇻🇪 will present their new novels at Magers & Quinn on Sept 11 & 12 — more info here: twincitiesbookfestival.com/festival-event… Little, Brown and Co W. W. Norton & Company

Now available in a first English translation by Mirgul Kali, "To Hell with Poets" (Tilted Axis), Baqytgul Sarmekova’s collection of stories, offers something new in Kazakh literature. New review by Timothy Walsh in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/to-hell-with-p…

Happy 81st birthday to the great Michael Ondaatje!  We were thrilled to create a special letterpress broadside celebrating his event in our reading series back in 2018, see here: raintaxi.com/michael-ondaat…

Hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the publication of Susanna Clarke’s amazing novel “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell”—read our 2004 review here: raintaxi.com/jonathan-stran…

In Michael Ondaatje’s latest collection, "A Year of Last Things" (Alfred A. Knopf), a poetics of the transpersonal takes shape through objects cherished for their talismanic power to evoke the beloved. New review by Bill Tremblay in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/a-year-of-last…

Thanks to Racket for including the Twin Cities Book Festival in its Fall Arts Guide of “the very best things to do” this season! racketmn.com/minneapolis-st… #TCBF

Here is my review in Rain Taxi of a wonderful new collection of stories from Kazakhstan by Baqytgul Sarmekova, TO HELL WITH POETS, just published by Tilted Axis raintaxi.com/to-hell-with-p…

Mark your calendars! Trio House Press will be at the Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival on October 19! name cannot be blank and Dorinda Wegener will be signing books, and it’s the only place you’ll be able to buy pre-sale signed copies of Deb Kossmann’s memoir Lost Found Kept 🤩