The Last (Poetry) Book I Loved: Star Dust by Frank Bidart
Everything from the theme of creation to the understated technique resonates; it is a book of poetry which has inspired both reflection and furious meditations of my own as I…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is September 27th 2010 and it is going to be a very good day, I can feel it. It is pivotal that you keep your falcon fashionable. Today’s important…
The Rumpus Interview With Meredith Maran
Meredith Maran published her first poem in Highlights For Kids at age six, her first national magazine article at age fifteen, and her first book at age eighteen. In the…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Things are terrible at work lately, so I’ll see you guys next week. Here is the most accurate science fiction, according to scientists (via @maudnewton) Did you know it’s banned…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
On Sunday we list everything we published from Rumpus Books this week so you can catch up. It’s like a vitamin, only it’s fun and it doesn’t make your pee…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The Essential American Poets series selection this week is Carl Sandburg. I’d never heard his voice before, and it was nothing like I’d expected. I suppose I’d assumed he sounded…
Michel Takes Down Batuman
Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel has written a beautiful response to Elif Batuman’s anti-MFA essay from last week. What do you think, folks? Whose side are you on?
Jeremy Davies: The Last Poem I Loved, Fredy Neptune
I do not love lightly, in poetry or in life. I love Fredy Neptune. This verse novel is probably the most startling reading experience I have had in some time.
From the Suicide Note of Mitchell Heisman
Mitchell Heisman killed himself last Saturday, but what’s best known about him thus far is his 1,900 page suicide note. HTMLGIANT has excerpted a very small portion of the note.…
Science Saturday
It’s kind of odd to see hurricanes as the International Space Station sees them, if only because of the superstructure in the frame and the angle of the video. Plus,…
Saturday Morning Links
Today’s blogging comes to you courtesy of the grading I’m escaping from. Scott Horton at Harper’s points to a study of prosecutorial misconduct in the Justice Department put together by…