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Poetry in Paradox
The title of experimentalist poet Rosmarie Waldrop’s new book, Gap Gardening (New Directions), is “classic Waldrop, a phrase that asserts its meaning by undoing itself,” writes Dan Chiasson for the New Yorker. Waldrop is among those who “track the nanotech of language,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Who doesn’t love a good street dog? Long lost color footage of David Attenborough’s first voyage (thanks great cool wonderful). Here’s your death defying Victorian balloonists story for the day. We all owe a deep gratitude to the World Instant…
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Sound Takes: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
That historical context takes center stage right from the outset
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Illuminating Poetry
Because Holzer now thinks of herself mostly as a reader, rather than a writer, she is happiest reimagining space with light, color, and form suffusing it, while a powerful beam is projecting poetry into the night—poetry with all its paradoxes,…
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Beyond the Surface
At the Guardian, Alison Flood wonders whether or not genre writing, particularly romance writing, is primarily “rubbish.” In her investigation, she points out how assumptions are often made about the “surface” elements of genre works and cites literary novels that…
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From Giggles to Gasps
New York comedian Scott Rogowsky created fake book covers that parody popular books and took them on the subway to see how people would react. Titles included Mein Kampf for Kids, Getting Away with Murder for Dummies, and Donald Trump: The Art of…
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Snowden the Composer
Edward Snowden has been busy during his exile: the whistle-blower has been working on a single with French artist Jean-Michel Jarre. The single, “Exit,” will appear on the upcoming Electronic Vol. 2: The Heart Of Noise, which also features Primal Scream,…
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Creative Writers in Conversation
Over at The Towner, Amelia Gray talks to Catherine Lacey about the role of the self and place in fiction, the artist’s responsibility to culture, and creativity and productivity. Lacey says: “It’s our job, as awake humans, not just as writers,…
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Meet Our New Rumpus Interviews Editor!
We are sad to announce that Ben Pfeiffer, who has been working with The Rumpus for nearly two years, first as Assistant Interviews Editor and then as Interviews Editor, will be moving on to work on personal projects. Ben has…
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Zoe Zolbrod
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Zoe Zolbrod about her new book The Telling, pushing against victim narratives, how the conversation surrounding sexual abuse has evolved, and the melding of research with memoir.
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Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #3: Poetry That Asks You to Sit and Sort This Whole Thing Out
I’m spending National Poetry Month at the Millay Colony, former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My colleague and friend, poet and writer Jen Fitzgerald, will be writing the Mixtape column this month—and we are all lucky for it. Enjoy…
