"The Poet as critic" is the topic for the next Periodically Speaking: Focus on Poetry event and we'll appropriately be featuring the Mineapolis-based journal Rain Taxi. Rain Taxi is an eclectic, thoughtful publication, filled to the brim four times a year with literary criticism, interviews and reviews of poetry, non fiction & graphic novels. Although it covers the spectrum of American publishing at its heart are small presses and innovative publishing.

RT Editor Eric Lorderer will moderate the conversation with poets Maureen N. McLane, Craig Morgan Teicher and Jordan Davis. Join us for brief readings by the writers, followed by an in-depth discussion on poets reviewing poetry next Tuesday, May 11, 2010 in the DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room at 6:00 pm.   

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