'A small-town setting is particularly well positioned, by proximity to the natural world, the weather, the birds, the rocks and sky, to get past what humans have built.” Rain Taxi co-founding editor Carolyn Kuebler shares her small town fiction recs in Literary Hub:

In her debut collection 'Public Abstract' (The American Poetry Review), poet Jane Huffman is neither straightforward nor deliberately cryptic, but rather mysteriously honest. New review by Erick Verran in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/public-abstrac…

Coming up this Saturday at Midway Contemporary Art, photographer Pao Houa Her will launch her new book in conversation with May Lee-Yang! For more about this and other local literary events, visit Rain Taxi's Twin Cities Literary Calendar: raintaxi.com/literary-calen…

Thank you Rain Taxi for reviewing Sean Thomas Dougherty's latest collection!

NBCC member Lee Rossi reviewed Matthew M. Monte’s 'All Tomorrow’s Train Rides' for Rain Taxi: buff.ly/3wDO7ck

In her debut collection 'Public Abstract' (The American Poetry Review), poet Jane Huffman is neither straightforward nor deliberately cryptic, but rather mysteriously honest. New review by Erick Verran in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/public-abstrac…

A meditation on life, death, and grieving, Sean Thomas Dougherty’s latest collection 'Death Prefers the Minor Keys” (@boaeditions) seeks a language equipped to transgress the boundaries of the mortal world. New review by Nicholas Hilbourn in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/death-prefers-…

Coming up this Sat, 5/11 at Comma, a bookshop, author Brian C. Johnson will present 'The Work is the Work: Letters to a Future Activist' in conversation with Kat Rohn! For more about this & other local literary events, visit the Twin Cities Literary Calendar: raintaxi.com/literary-calen…

RIP the extraordinary Jerome Rothenberg:
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Fun article on artist Sam Robertson (whose art from the very book he’s hand-selling graced the cover of Rain Taxi issue 96) by Jenna Ross at Star Tribune: startribune.com/new-podcast-sp…

TONIGHT: Twin Cities friends, we’ve got amazing writers & musicians on deck for an evening of art & celebration at the gorgeous Granada Theater! As Southwest Voices put it: “Reading books is good for your health, and listening to music is good for your soul.” raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-spri…