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Poets Plaza
Want to help Lawrence Ferlinghetti build a “Poets Plaza” in the North Beach area of San Francisco? Click here to learn more about the project, and how you can help. (via @PoetryFound)
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Loss of a Poet
National Book Award winning poet Ai (born Florence Anthony) passed away on Saturday at the age of 62. Ai “died unexpectedly of natural causes.” Her new collection, “No Surrender,” is slated to be published this fall. For more about the…
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More Murrmann
Yesterday we ran an interview with photographer Mark Murrmann. If you liked the photos we ran with the piece, then we encourage you to head over to Mark’s website, markmurrmann.com, for more amazing images. You won’t be disappointed.
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As Above So Below
London-based illustrator Will Sweeney kindly shared these images from his new book, As Above So Below. Will is behind the comic Tales From Greenfuzz and a ton of cool stuff on his Alakazam label. The catalog of Swiss publisher Nieves…
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Naked Breakfast
Good Morning. Hungry? Why not listen to William S. Burroughs reading from Naked Lunch? Or how about viewing some of the Naked Lunch manuscript? Or pictures of different editions of the book since its publication in 1959? Or hell, how…
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Morning Coffee
NY Times slide show on Conrad Gessner’s beastiaries. Anyone want to go live in a sweet cave house with me? Important advances in the field of robot journalism. I’ve often asked “what are the ten strangest moons?” Here are some…
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What I Saw: Animal Collective and Danny Perez at the Guggenheim
Three parts rave, two parts bourgeois museum gathering and one part carnival.
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dislocate on Jim Shephard on John Hawkes
Following his Appreciation of John Hawkes, which we ran here on The Rumpus, dislocate interviews novelist and short story writer Jim Shepard about the piece, as well as the universal shame of realizing which classics you’ve never read, the pros…
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MoMA “Acquires” Intangible Object
As mentioned in this morning’s Morning Coffee, and in what might only be explained as a tribute to the Pop Art sensibility of reclaiming everyday objects, the @ symbol is the newest “acquisition” of the Architecture and Design collection at…