June 2010
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Iran’s Green Revolution, One Year later
Alexandra Sandels reports that security is tight in Tehran. Eskander Sedaghi discusses where the Green Revolution has to go next. Greg Scoblete asks how much would be different had the Green Revolution succeeded. James Miller argues that the Green Revolution…
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“The Green of Iran” A Rumpus Original Poem by Sholeh Wolpé
The Green of Iran No departures here. In Tehran out and in are closed, under and over, stained.
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Saturday Morning Links
Late start this morning. I’d like to take a moment to thank all the Belgian beer that made this late start possible. In the event you’re having trouble finding enough to read online, you can always check out Michelle Orange’s…
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Last Minute Notice
Lena Dunham’s excellent new film and SXSW favorite Tiny Furniture is screening this evening in NYC at BAM. We interviewed Lena last year, you should definitely check it out.
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“Don’t fuck this up!”
The Morning News has a long interview with David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker since 1998, which covers a wide range of topics (including how he got the gig).
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Pornographic Ghosts
“Pornographic ghosts sound like a terrific idea. I just today bought a Victorian corset to wear to the Rumpus event, (though I may have to go back to the store to get myself laced back into it properly), where I…
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“I am not a good book reviewer.”
“I recently read Ben Greenman’s forthcoming What He’s Poised to Do and no book in recent memory has impressed me as much as this lush and thoroughly engaging short story collection. I am not a good book reviewer. All I…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #6: Royal Young in Conversation with Alexander Pridgen
I was sitting in a hospital chair by the mechanical bed of Muhammad Ali’s ex-bodyguard, Alexander Pridgen. After years of lavishing in limelight as well as dealing with the dark, violent flipside to fame, Pridgen was a patient at Rivington…
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The Tense, Thrown Like a Switch
Farley’s poems live in the present, the past and the future simultaneously, fully conscious of their unrest.
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Blame the Oil Spill on Poets
Over at HTMLGiant, Blake Butler blames the Oil Spill on poets. In the comments section, poets retaliate with Elizabeth Bishop.