Notable New York, This Week 8/15-8/21
This week in New York the Franklin Park Reading Series on Missed Connections; Word for Word features the poets of Letras Latinas; a party for My Drunk Kitchen; Poetry from…
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The Last Book I Loved: Reality Hunger
Despite what some might see as a fuming belligerence that characterizes our age (tea partiers, Rush Limbaugh, Charlie Sheen, etc.), I think we’re hampered by a cultural tendency to be…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am happy to report that I am back in (internet) town and ready for business. I hope this is ok. The most disturbing thing that I’ve seen today is…
The Rumpus Interview with Dave Engelhardt, Pro Bono Lawyer for Guantanamo Detainees
Though Guantanamo Bay is no longer in the daily headlines, it remains very much open and operating. Dave Engelhardt was a pro bono lawyer for several prisoners detained at Guantanamo…
Reading Can Change Your Personality
“For a long time we’ve been talking about the benefits of reading with respect to vocabulary, literacy, and these such things. We’re now beginning to see that there’s a much…
80-Foot Tower of Books
“The Tower of Babel,” is an 80-foot tower art installation of 30,000 books created by Argentinean artist Marta Minujín to celebrate Buenos Aires being the 2011 World Book Capital as…
“Bed Peace” with John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono is gifting YouTube viewers with a free viewing of Bed Peace, a documentary about her and John Lennon’s 1969 Bed-In in Montreal to promote world peace and protest…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
At Full Stop, how much do interns in the publishing industry earn? Mark Athitakis points to this fascinating article at Big Other about the difference between the novel and the…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’s a lazy, August Sunday, which is the perfect time to catch up with Rumpus Books, preferably in a hammock.
The Last Poem I Loved: “South America” by Tom Raworth
Can words become a part of you? I found Tom Raworth’s “South America” published in Keith Tuma’s Anthology of Twentieth-Century British & Irish Poetry (Oxford, 2001) and have always looked…
Science Saturday
Lovely photos of the Necklace Nebula. Some building blocks of DNA look like they originated in space. If you hear someone claim global warming violates the laws of physics (and…