Rain Taxi

    Rain Taxi champions aesthetically adventurous literature

2025 has been a tumultuous year for arts funding, but we are focused on the future. We invite all our readers to drive into that future with us by making a donation of any size.

2025 has been Rain Taxi’s 30th year of championing literary culture and all who engage with it—readers, writers, publishers, bookstores, and more. We continue to produce our award-winning quarterly Rain Taxi Review of Books and numerous other programs despite the challenging landscape for arts nonprofits. We’re especially proud of having successfully moved our Twin Cities Book Festival to a new venue this year, bringing nearly 10,000 people together to celebrate the joy of books and creating a vibrant home for the event for years to come. 

Would you care to see this organization continue to foster great literary community? Your generosity can make this happen. It’s the perfect time to send $25 or more and become a Rain Taxi member, but even just a $10 gift in this campaign will help us reach our goal and unlock a matching gift of an additional $1000. 

Please help us reach our goal by giving what you can. Thank you for contributing to the future of book culture!

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• Rain Taxi Review of Books, our award-winning print quarterly of reviews and interviews, distributed by mail to members and also free of charge at select independent bookstores and literary organizations across the country;
• Raintaxi.org, our constantly updated website, which contains even more reviews, interviews, and essays than we can fit in print, as well as videos, articles, and resources for educators;
• Rain Taxi’s Twin Cities Book Festival, an annual gala that brings writers of renown to Minnesota and showcases publishers, writers, and community organizations; 
• Rain Taxi Literary Events, a roughly monthly series providing widespread access to a huge range of literary art through both in-person events and virtual broadcasting;
• Rain Taxi’s TwinCitiesLiteraryCalendar.com, a free online directory of readings and book events taking place throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area;
•  and chapbooks and broadsides of poetry and prose!

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"The Twin Cities Book Festival is an intimate opportunity to connect with the spectrum of book people, from booksellers to book promoters, from educators who use the books in their classrooms to families who read the books at bedtime. It's a wonderful space to engage with the literature of the Twin Cities and across the nation.”   

— Kao Kalia Yang

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Give $25 or more and become a Rain Taxi member!

Donations of $25 or more make you a Rain Taxi member, and members get Rain Taxi Review of Books delivered four times a year — it’s like getting a Book Festival in your mailbox!