Recent posts
Rumpus Articles
-
The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week, Rumpus Books published reviews of new novels, short story collections, and volumes of poetry, and capped off National Poetry Month with a Supersized Rumpus Original Combo (or S-ROC, as we like to call it) with poet D.A. Powell.
-
Microfiction
Frigg Magazine dedicates an entire issue to microfiction, which includes work by Kim Chinquee. What is microfiction? A debate between “microfictionists” Randall Brown and Joseph Young might explain.
-
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Congratulations to Carole Ann Duffy, Britain’s new Poet Laureate, and both the first woman and the first openly gay person to hold the position. Mayday Magazine hosts a roundtable on the need for the negative review in poetry. Joshua Corey…
-
Obey the DeeJay
I hadn’t thought about it this way before, perhaps because I’m rarely in a dance club anymore, and when I was in them, I was generally too blitzed to pay that much attention to the orders I was receiving from…
-
Telling Our Stories
One of the few compensations of growing up as a member of a restrictive, some might even say cultish, religion, is that if you manage to get free of it as an adult, you have great stories to tell. I…
-
An Update on Craig Arnold
A couple of days ago, we passed along the story that poet Craig Arnold was missing on the small volcanic island of Kuchino-erabu-shima while on a creative exchange fellowship. The search is still going on, and the best place to…
-
The Rumpus Interview with Jim Granato
“How many people are willing to actually die for their art? I don’t know. I’m sure many are willing to take a risk and push themselves as far as they see fit, depending how dedicated and smart they are. Was…
-
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 at the history of skyscrapers. Some absolutely gorgeous photos of…
-
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: