Tao Lin reviews ten blogging platforms (xanga, blogger, wordpress, livejournal, deadjournal, open diary, typepad, moveable type, wheatblog, tumblr) using such descriptions as “discovered at the bottom of a ‘deceptively pond-like,…
“If you could hold a seashell to your ear and hear an account of a poet’s life, it might have the exquisite depth and simplicity of Michael Sledge’s The More…
NOON and Gigantic Present Bastille Day Soiree with Diane Williams, Rebecca Curtis, Joshua Cohen and Special Guest DJ John Pugh of Free Blood (and formerly of !!!).
Gravity? You ain’t nothing! Here is your award winning aquarium architecture for the day. On the environmental impact of spam e-mails. (via Flavorwire.) Daniel Hadiwibawa is really into the Northern…
Rumpus Poetry Book Club Advisory Board member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Shane Book’s Ceiling of Sticks to be the group’s first selection. If anyone were to accuse…
This (sexy) week: Get your Rumpus on at the Makeout Room, makeout with someone in honor of Bastille Day, and help Carol Queen celebrate her birthday in true Exhibitionist stylewith…
Listen to poet Derek Walcott recite Walter de la Mare‘s “Fare Well,” as well as read his own “The Hulls of White Yachts” from White Egrets. (via The Book Bench)…