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Songs of Our Lives: Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat”
Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat” begins at four in the morning, an hour usually armed with drunken reverie, but occasionally visited on insomniac nights, leaving you with nothing to do but to send search parties into the shadowed rivers of…
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Video Poetry: The Third Form
Erica Goss evaluates book trailers for poetry collections over on Connotation Press’ site in a series on video poetry.
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John Steinbeck Talks Falling in Love
John Steinbeck will be remembered as many things – as the author of Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and many other canonical works of American literature, of course. To his son Thom, however, he was a…
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The Dynamic Duo: Sugar Meets WLM!
Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful Rumpus readers! We all know today is the crazy day known as Black Friday but did you know that tomorrow is Support Small Business Saturday? Over in the Rumpus store we have some amazing gifts…
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People on Sunday by Geoffrey G. O’Brien
Kent Shaw reviews Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s People on Sunday today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Portrait of an artist in 7 minutes
Rumpus artist MariNaomi has her first published essay over at The Weeklings. She writes an about an honest, raw experience about what creative people will go through for the sake of “exposure”: “The gig was unpaid, but I was promised…
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Fantasy Football for Poets, Week 13
In this column, J. Ryan Stradal examines complex issues of the NFL and brings you original interviews.
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Rumpus Holiday Gifts!
Give the gift of The Rumpus this holiday season! We have plenty of holiday gift options, which you can view here!
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Thanksgivukkah Reading
Over at WNPR this week Maureen Corrigan offers up a “Literary Escape Plan” from holiday stress. The Borsch Belt-style Pilgrim jokes and mishmash recipes (turkey brined in Manischewitz, anyone?) are flying around the Internet; but since Jews are frequently referred…
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Give Thanks for this Book Flowchart
Thanksgiving can be a trial sometimes, but one can always turn to books for comfort. Here’s a fun Thanksgiving flowchart from Bookish to help you determine which book you need to help you through any holiday situation.
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Leapfrog and Other Stories by Guillermo Rosales
Jessica Michalofsky reviews Guillermo Rosales’s LEAPFROG AND OTHER STORIES today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
