2011
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Saturday Morning Links
Here’s my NY Times pay-wall workaround. After I’ve used up my 20 free articles, I find a headline I of an article I want to read, right click on the link and copy it, tweet it, and then click the…
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National Poetry Month Day 9: “Letter to the Winding-Sheet” by Camille Rankine
Letter to the Winding-Sheet After the snowfall, snowfall jewels my hair, my church shoes muddy the bedspread. Crazy, you called me, not much of a lady.
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Gain Nonfiction Knowledge and Help the Kids
The good folks at 826 Valencia would like you to come and pick the brains of their “esteemed panel of writers and publishing experts” who will be discussing “the craft of literary nonfiction and the nuts and bolts of getting…
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Up Since June 8th, 2009
In case you ever doubted The Monthly Rumpus’s staying power, check out this picture of one of our first ever event posters:
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Drinks Are on Zapruder
We are very pleased to hear that poet and Rumpus contributor Matthew Zapruder has won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Update: D. A. Powell also made the cut. Congrats to both poets! (Now they can split the tab.)
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Where I Write #5: Please Continue the Story
I am looking at the things on my Ikea desk surrounding my 2007 Dell Computer that I am typing on. What I see from left to right: Jan/Feb issue of Poets And Writer’s Magazine. The inspiration issue. Smith Corona electric…
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Polishing The Pale King
Michael Pietsch, David Foster Wallace’s editor since Infinite Jest, tells The Atlantic “how he turned Wallace’s unfinished manuscript into a publishable novel after the author’s 2008 suicide.”
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Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: The Correspondence Artist Another fantastic Rumpus Comic book review by Kevin Thomas.
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A Smidge of Confusion, A Glow of Fear
Vogelsang is sometimes so restless its hard not to wonder how and when he sleeps, and he makes the reader confront the question of whether sleep, or any kind of ease, is a valid way to spend time.
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Larissa Speak: The Last Book I Loved, The Still Point
Have you ever played at being an Arctic explorer? Looked at the icy expanse of your backyard as if it was the desolate plain of a frozen tundra? Come to the exciting realization that you and your best friend have…