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NY Times on how your brain physically manifests abstract ideas and the Tanzanian Spray Toad. The Hubble has detected an alien spacecraft (or just a comet or something, whatever). The…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #8: The Sex and Politics of Antonia Crane
Antonia Crane has worked many jobs in the sex industry. She's done escort, BDSM, porn, and stripping. She's also been very engaged with sex worker activism.
“Unoriginal Poetry Based on Junk”
D.A. Powell wrote – a few years ago now – a column for The Poetry Foundation in which he dabbles with the idea of street poetry (think along the lines…
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Today we have a Rumpus Original Combo with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, which includes an interview as well as a Rumpus Original Poem: “Every Person in This Town Loves Football” Even the…
“Every Person in This Town Loves Football” a Rumpus Original Poem by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
“Every Person in This Town Loves Football” Even the nuns come out to watch the boys in their gold and blue. Sister Marita, Sister Anne, and some weeks
The Rumpus Original Combo with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
"The opposite of transcendence (to me) is simply anyone who just makes pronouncements or qualifies themselves without doing the deep, ongoing work of inquiry."
“We have captured a most rare specimen of an extinct insect which was extremely popular at the beginning of the century.”
This second installment of my Soviet-era children’s book series features George Kovenchuk‘s 1974 illustrations for Klop (The Bedbug) by Mayakovsky. You can read a thorough summary of the famous 1929…
Congratulations
Poet D. A. Powell, a subject of a Supersized Combos last April, has been announced the winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University.
Thelma & Louise of Poetry
If ever two female poets were going to clutch hands and drive off a cliff together, it would be Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper.
The Ghost in the Search Engine: Google Conspiracies
Conspiracies surrounding the world’s most highly used search engine are nothing new. Tech nerds have long speculated on the myriad ways in which Google could be selling off our personal…