2012
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“Give Me A Peanut Now, Human”
Corvids, a family of birds including crows, ravens, and scrub jays, are famed for their intelligence. They can play, use tools, and remember where they’ve hidden food with remarkable accuracy. They can also form relationships with humans like Annalee Newitz,…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Poetry and the Newtown Massacre
Last week I had intended to take a quick Christmastime breather from writing Poetry Wire until the beginning of next year. Then on Friday came the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. (Then, too, on Sunday, the sudden death of an admired…
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A Very Medieval Holiday Season
If the usual array of winter holidays is simply not enough for you, you might consider checking out the medieval December saints calendar (part 1 and part 2). Who needs “New Year’s Eve” when you can have the Feast of…
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Gift the Gift of Rumpus! (Order today!)
A holiday gift subscription to Letters For Kids or Letters in the Mail, a Write Like a Motherfucker Mug, the Rumpus Book Club Gift Package, a Dear Sugar Coffee Mug Two Pack, and more! Visit The Rumpus Shop this holiday season! Please note that all merchandise orders made…
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Bennington Commencement Speech (tropes, propositions, fish, bicycles)
There’s a trope from the last century (circa 1972) that if you do what you love the rest will follow.
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Charms Against Lightning by James Arthur
The debut collection of poetry might just deserve its own taxon in the categorizing of literary contributions. One can almost picture beneath the heading of ‘Debuts’ a series of subheadings such as ‘Showed Great Promise Only at First,’ ‘Terrible Poetry…
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Bigfoot Is Real!
The director of genetic-testing lab DNA Diagnostics claims to have sequenced the DNA of a Bigfoot-type creature from a population that arose when “male, non-human primates mated with early human females.” One of the genetic samples used in the sequencing…
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“The gun is our Moloch”
To sacrifice the life of a child is to honor the god Moloch. Garry Wills, at the New York Review of Books Blog unearths America’s not-so-secret shrines to Moloch: “The gun is not a mere tool, a bit of technology,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Get in the holiday spirit with Christmas present x-rays. All the Bauhaus sketches/photos/puppets you could hope for (or, you know, a couple of them). Very important: why is their a “b” in the word “doubt”? I think we can all…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jamel Shabazz
For over thirty-five years, Jamel Shabazz has photographed the pulse of New York urban life. Dating back to the early days of hip-hop and B-boys, to the arrival of crack cocaine and the HIV/AIDs epidemic, and to the global commoditization of…
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REAL MAN ADVENTURES #2: “He Will”
We’re releasing half the songs from T Cooper’s musical album, a collection of (mostly) original songs by (entirely) original artists–all inspired by specific chapters in his new book, REAL MAN ADVENTURES. Starting yesterday, and for the six days, you can download free tracks from…
