Rain Taxi Review of Books

Rain Taxi champions aesthetically adventurous literature through print and online publications, events, and service to the literary community.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

Rain Taxi at MNABF

Find Rain Taxi at the 2025 Minnesota Antiquarian Book Fair, where we’ll be featuring a variety of signed books, first editions, rare poetry, and other treasures from eras past. More details here!

 

PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

Summer Print Edition

The new Rain Taxi summer print edition will be hitting the stands and mailboxes soon—dive into the contents and admire the ducky cover by Areca Roe! See contents 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.