Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
You’ve probably heard of erasure as a poetic mode–how about redaction? Arthur Lubow looks at Adam Zagajewski, calls him “the last of his kind.” Lily Hoang at HTMLGIANT wonders about…
Recent posts
Rumpus Articles
The Latest from Ted
If you have some time to burn, you can always spend them on the Ted website. Here’s some suggestions for talks to watch. Jane McGonigal argues that we need to…
The Last Poem I Loved: “Clip from Francis Jammes” by Charles North
Charles North works in many modes—conceptual architect, thingy neurographer, witty synthesist, maker of the poetic equivalent of very fine shirts—but I think I like him best when he gets all…
Science Saturday
The Large Hadron Collider continues to set energy records. Men make 1500 sperm a second. Apparently. Felix Baumgartner wants to break the sound barrier without a plane, or any vehicle…
How Writers Are Like Prostitutes
Here at The Rumpus, we feature a fair amount of writing about sex work, prostitution, and writing. And I don’t believe we’ve ever made the tragic error of using either…
Saturday Morning Links
I have to admit, I was curious as to what the sarcasm mark would look like, but I’d never use it. Rather keep everyone guessing. Chaucer tweets the South by…
Fistfight Friday
Nicholas Sparks, author of such books as The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, was recently profiled by USA Today. Why do we know this? Because the article has author…
Movies, Briefly: An Affair to Remember (1957)
Though its final act revolves around a thoroughly aggravating plot contrivance (“Just tell him Deborah Kerr! TELL HIM!”) and there’s two dopey musical numbers by children’s choirs for no reasons…
Guernica and Triple Canopy: Two Not to Miss
Two pieces of writing that caught my eye today were Bridget Potter’s essay “Lucky Girl” in Guernica, and Joshua Cohen’s “Thirty-Six Shades of Prussian Blue” in Triple Canopy. Potter’s startling…
Not at SXSW?
While a lot of sites are covering the music, tech, film, and other happenings in Austin this week, only Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser of SMITHmag.net are capturing the essence…
DoD vs. WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks, “the Internet service that offers whistleblowers an opportunity to publish documents that expose corruption and wrongdoing by state and private actors,” has drawn the ire of many corporations in…