2011
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Why I Chose Kingdom Animalia
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia as the August selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
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The Last Poet I Loved: Dolores Dorantes
I was at a writer’s conference in San Miguel de Allende when a classmate first introduced me to the work of Mexican poet Dolores Dorantes. All month long my class had been required to introduce each other to new poetry…
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A Internet-Based Literary Performance Piece
Do you know about the Precession? Judd Morrissey and Mark Jeffrey’s project is pioneering new digital landscape, making the act of writing into a visually-stimulating performance piece, combined with the personal act of reading work on the Internet. It is…
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A Literary Bone Hunt
Ever wonder what happened to author of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’ bones? So have a bunch of historians and archaeologists. They’ve been trying to track them down, hoping to reveal whether there is any veracity in the rumors that…
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Populist Fatalism
In his new epistolary novel, Dignity, about a new community founded in the unpaved cul-de-sacs and abandoned unfinished houses of the California desert, Ken Layne criticizes the material obsessions of contemporary capitalism.
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August’s Poetry Book Club Selection
We are excited to announce Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia as the August selection for the August Rumpus Poetry Book Club. This poetry collection, published by BOA Editions is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2011. Author Chris…
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That’s Gross
Some things automatically disgust us, while others are learned triggered from an emotional experience. Salon.com is dabbling in some neuroscience, speaking with Daniel Kelly who is an assistant professor at Purdue University and the author of, Yuck!: The Nature and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s important to remember sometimes that basically we don’t know anything. Say hi to our little asteroid buddy. The solution to all our transit woes is SLIDES. It’s always a good day to rethink about what killed the dinosaurs.
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The Rumpus Interview with Richard Kline
Though best known as Larry Dallas, the smarmy and morally flexible neighbor to Jack, Chrissy and Janet on television’s Three’s Company,