Brian’s Saturday Morning Links
Welcome to Saturday morning, home of the screaming hangover. Perhaps I’ll try to get my hands on some watercress. This Day in Tech gives us a short, but interesting, look…
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A Poem I Love
As part of National Poetry Month, Rumpus Books asked writers for poems they loved, and places those poems can be found online. Here’s what they said:
Randall Mann: A Poem I Love
The last poem I loved is John Casteen’s fifteen-line poem “Regret,” from his first collection, Free Union. Here’s the first stanza: This life, it is like conducting the symphony of…
30 Days, 30 Poems
National Poetry Month is over, but you can still read great poetry on The Rumpus. We published a new poem every day in April, including work from D.A. Powell, Michelle…
Swedish Vibrations
“I got the idea to exchange each word in a poem I’d written with an emotionally equivalent sound. When I had exchanged all the words, I had made an electronic…
The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
Starting this week, the Rumpus will feature roundups where we’ll share links to things we think you would want to read from book blogs around the Internet. Hopefully, it’ll save…
Rumpus Sports—The Lead-Footed Cowboy
This past week, I should have been haunting Brooklyn’s British ex-pat soccer bars, nestling myself into a corner with an afternoon pint or two, watching as the Champions League semi-finals…
I Want You to Want Me
What stopped me was the fact that Nomadagascar was not just another attractive stranger on a dating website. I had seen this photograph before. His real name is Jonathan Harris,…
The Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with D.A. Powell
How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!
Murs Drops Fresh Science
Off the album “Murs for President.” (On a sidenote: Murs touches on the sentencing disparities between crack convictions and cocaine convictions in this damn good video. President Obama is pretty…