Rain Taxi champions aesthetically adventurous literature through print and online publications, events, and service to the literary community.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
June 12: Vincent Katz
Join Rain Taxi and Milkweed Books on the evening of June 12 as we welcome acclaimed New York poet Vincent Katz to read from his new collection, Daffodil and other poems. Vincent will be joined in conversation with poet Dobby Gibson. See event details here!
RIP
Alice Notley
Rain Taxi mourns the passing of Alice Notley, soothsaying poet who held our collective hands as we journeyed to the underworld and overworld alike; when we hosted her for a reading in Minneapolis in 2005, we shared many espressos and hatched plans to publish her chapbook City Of (our standard edition is sold out; there are still a few signed copies, for which Alice created original watercolors, here).
RIP
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Rain Taxi mourns the passing of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kenyan literary giant who showed people around the world that it was possible to decolonize the mind. In scores of novels, plays, memoirs, essays, and more, he relentlessly demonstrated how the essence of the human being flows through writing. His appearance at Rain Taxi’s 2018 Twin Cities Book Festival thunderously inspired Minnesota’s writing community.