April 2014
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Objects of Our Affection
Objects make for excellent writing prompts, Anca Szilagyi declares on the Plougshares blog. Objects can ignite memories or serve as a simple writing exercise tool. And objects within a narrative define how characters interact in a world. But be warned,…
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National Poetry Month Day 9: “Prophecy: After the Dam” by Camille Dungy
Prophecy: After the Dam the floodplains do bloom_____ the horsetail die+++++ the wheatits thousand thousand eyes eyeing a fat future _____nods and nods never fearing the peasants plant potatoes plant turnips___ radish and carrot even the mice leave the hovels and make camp in the…
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The Ex-Nazi Poet You’ve Never Heard Of
Prussian poet Gottfried Benn landed on the wrong side of history, supporting Hitler’s government in the early 1930s when it promised solutions to the global economic collapse. But by 1934, his allegiance to the regime ended as it became clear…
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A Conjoined Book by Karla Kelsey
Kent Shaw reviews Karla Kelsey’s A Conjoined Book today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Ursula Villarreal-Moura. Here’s an excerpt: Within a month of knowing her, Irina had turned me on to shoplifting. I was hooked on the thrill of procuring ordinary and exquisite items. From grocery stores,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Doctor Zhivago as CIA propaganda. Let’s talk about mummy tattoos. Let’s talk about hummingbird DNA. Here are some 1850’s scientific engravings for you. Richard Teschner and his puppets (Are also neat).
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Hacking the Haggadah
This year I’m hacking the Haggadah again: collaging together a text from books and the Internet that captures the beautiful spirit of the ritual as I see it. At least the way I see it this year.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #51: Pet Psychic Marla Steele
Each year on my dog Isso’s birthday, I give him the gift of voice: a reading with pet psychics/animal communicators who “talk” to Isso about his likes and dislikes, requests, preferences and physical ailments, if any.
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Sympoisum: Filmmaker/Animator Ernie Gehr
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights from 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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Solidly Mid-List
So what happened? How did I get here? That’s really the mystery of this whole business, this amazing adventure we call writing.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter I
Poetry Wire continues its exploration of how one might become a poet in the modern world, how one traverses between the creative realm and daily experience.
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Cabin in the Woods
It may not be 1869 anymore, but fear not: the golden age of conservation literature is far from over. As part of the Pacific Standard‘s week-long series on “opting-out,” Eva Holland writes about the tradition of environmental writing, from Thoreau to David…