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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: When JFK Read Poetry
Not that one needs an excuse such as the imminent threat of nuclear armageddon to read poetry, but the early 1960s might have been a good time to turn to poems for comfort, insight, solace, and understanding about the disposition…
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The Rumpus Interview with Aimee Bender
The luminous Aimee Bender talks about writing short stories, the importance of liking and defending your characters, and relying on the unconscious instead of intention.
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World Wide Poetry
Poetry as we know it—sonnets or free verse on a printed page—feels akin to throwing pottery or weaving quilts, activities that continue in spite of their cultural marginality. But the Internet, with its swift proliferation of memes, is producing more…
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Read (and listen to) Long Meadow!
Artist/Poet Jon Cotner has a poem, “Long Meadow,” over at The American Reader. Not only can you read this amazing poem but it has audio! I still have yet to adjust to North American life I can’t say exactly when…
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Alice Munro May Not Be Done Writing Just Yet
Back in June, celebrated Canadian short fiction writer Alice Munro announced she was leaving writing to finally relax and enjoy her friends and family. Then, earlier this month, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now, it seems she…
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The Purchase by Linda Spalding
Joseph Olshan reviews Linda Spalding’s THE PURCHASE today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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On Faulkner and Cocktails
There are two Faulkners, and each of these Faulkners is embodied by one of the author’s two favorite drinks, as Robert Moor posits in a recent Paris Review article. The julep is High Faulknerian. Taking in the dense, lush language in…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We are all just waiting for Houdini to escape death. Good news! The first ever (almost nearly slightly functional) intercontinental underwater rail tunnel is here. Better news! The age of jetpacks is (maybe almost) really here. It was only a…
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Hand-Operated Shearing Instruments
There are a lot of performance issues when it comes to scissoring. Everyone’s tried it, at least once. This is what I tell people when I have this conversation after two or three beers. It’s a lesbian rite of passage.
