Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Rain Taxi threw a party for its 2020 Summer Print Edition, the 98th issue of Rain Taxi Review of Books! Editor Eric Lorberer hosted the event, which featured cover artist Jil Evans giving a studio tour, James Lenfestey discussing Louise Erdrich, Linda Stack-Nelson on the work of Echo Brown, and poets Tyrone Williams and Xandria Phillips in conversation. Rain Taxi Board member Mary Moore Easter announced the organization’s plan to publish an anthology of black poets of the Twin Cities, in conjunction with Rain Taxi’s Twin Cities Book Festival this October.
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Cherríe Moraga
Thursday, May 2, 2019, Hook and Ladder Theater, Mission Room
An adoring crowd warmly welcomed author and activist Cherríe Moraga as she presented her new memoir, Native Country of the Heart. She was joined on stage by Alexis Pauline Gumbs for a lively discussion of her work and impact on the queer and Xicana communities.
RAIN TAXI TALKS WITH RED PINE
Before a Minneapolis reading from his new book Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past, Bill Porter (AKA Red Pine) sat down with Rain Taxi editor Eric Lorberer and author James Lenfestey to discuss his beginnings as a translator and how the best poetry comes directly from the heart.
America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake
Assigned to review Ted Levin’s America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake (University of Chicago Press, $35), our intrepid reviewer Michael Swingen instead made a 30-minute film about the book, the author, and the process of reviewing.
Rain Taxi talks with Kristin Hersh
Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
An Interview with Kristin Hersh
We sit down for a chat with acclaimed author and musician Kristin Hersh, whose latest release is both a hardback book of stories and essays (and art, and lyrics) and a double album of new songs, all getting to “the heart of missing you.” Interviewed by Eric Lorberer
RAIN TAXI TALKS WITH JOE HILL
Minneapolis, May 21, 2016
Rain Taxi sat down with author Joe Hill to discuss his new novel The Fireman, his literary influences, his comics writing, and more.
RAIN TAXI TALKS TO AMBER TAMBLYN
Minneapolis, March 12, 2016
Rain Taxi spoke with poet Amber Tamblyn before she read from her book of poems, Dark Sparkler, at Magers & Quinn Booksellers.
Rain Taxi 20th Anniversary Video
In 2015, Rain Taxi celebrated twenty years of championing literary excellence through its pages and stages.
Billy Collins
February 8, 2015, Saint Paul
Rain Taxi recently sat down with poet Billy Collins for a chat about the popularity of poetry in the post-9/11 era.
J. Otis Powell‽
Patrick's Cabaret, November 7, 2014
This special launch event featured spoken word legend J. Otis Powell‽, accompanied by his musician friends Donald and Faye Washington and Davu Seru, read selections from his chapbook Pieces of Sky, a fantastic, improviXational jazzy rendering.