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Revising the Storm by Geffrey Davis
Jess Smith reviews Geffrey Davis’s Revising the Storm today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Jill Hanley
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Jill Hanley. Here’s an excerpt: Lola stepped into the kitchen to find her mother standing at the sink, showing no signs of tears. She could still remember how hard, loud, and ugly her mother’s…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com is the most important thing I’ve found today. Why do we procrastinate? (because we are jerks is why, basically.) Yeah! And why do we cry? The Afronauts are making the rounds again, as well they should. And now the…
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Next Letter for Kids: Lemony Snicket
If there’s any time to sign up for Letters for Kids, it’s definitely now!
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Preamble
With this column, Poetry Wire begins a multi-part exploration of how you might become a poet in the modern world.
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Fate, Chance, and Student Loans
Does everything happen for a reason? That’s the question writer Laura Leigh Abby had to ask herself after a car accident allowed her to graduate with an MFA degree loan-free: For most of my life I’ve been doing things without worrying…
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A Great Escape
I came from, not a small town, but basically not a very interesting place…So it was very important for me not to rebel but simply to get away, to go away. Travel writing doesn’t have to be lackluster. It can…
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Pippi Longstocking Has Best Week Ever
Not only did the beloved redheaded children’s character get a shout-out from Lena Dunham, but Longstocking creator Astrid Lindgren will be immortalized on Sweden’s 20 Krona note.
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Patricia Mainardi on 19th century Picture Stories/Stories with Pictures
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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Picturing Appalachia
There’s a bite-sized symposium about the challenges of photographing Appalachia happening over at the Oxford American right now, and it’s a great read. In his essay, “Looking Without Fear,” Roger May writes: Recently, I was thinking about my grandfather and…
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Understanding Experimental Writing
Too often new writers expect experimental fiction simply means abnormal page layouts, says Sequoia Nagamatsu, an editor for Psychopomp. Writing in The Review Review, Nagamatsu explores a better definition: In other words, a successful literary experiment (regardless of whether that…
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Keep It Lit
The oldest independent black bookstore in the country, San Francisco’s Marcus Books, is in danger of closing. But if the owners can raise $2.6M, the San Francisco Community Land Trust will buy the building and allow the shop to remain as…