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Brian Spears

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Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.
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Saturday Morning Links

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  • January 21, 2012
The weather app on my phone has stopped giving me the temperature and has started simply laughing at me. That is, when it’s not giving me the temperature in Kelvin…
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The Rumpus Interview with Barbara Jane Reyes

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  • January 19, 2012
It’s hard for me to know how much to push against popular culture, because certain trends are fleeting.
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Science Saturday

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  • January 14, 2012
Can’t help myself–I’m a sucker for high speed video of birds in flight. There are few things I find more elegant. Russia’s Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt (not making that name up),…
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Saturday Morning Links

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  • January 14, 2012
So winter finally showed up in Des Moines this week. It’s been a nice run, what with temperatures in the 50s, but yesterday it barely got above 20, and I’ve…
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Science Saturday

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  • January 7, 2012
Independent journalists are taking to the skies, attempting to use drones to capture footage and livestream it. Even though I’m a huge fan of tech, I’m not sure I feel…
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Saturday Morning Links

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  • January 7, 2012
I survived my first Iowa election season mostly intact. The secret? No television that wasn’t streamed. I think I saw one political commercial out of the corner of my eye…
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Science Saturday

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  • December 31, 2011
If you weren’t already afraid of scorpions, then you probably don’t want to hear that their exoskeleton sort of acts like one big eye. Popular Science takes us on a…
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Saturday Morning Links

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  • December 31, 2011
Welcome to the end of the year. This time last year, I was living in Fort Lauderdale, which was going through the coldest December on record, according to NOAA. This…
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Science Saturday

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  • December 17, 2011
So glad that Wired Science didn’t title this piece “A Star is Born” because that would have been really cheesy. X-Men bacteria Comet Lovejoy is pretty badass. The National Institutes…
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  • December 17, 2011
Tonight, I will be geeking out hard. There will likely be evidence of this on my various other interweb presences. Klingons are involved. Gene Marks, writing for Forbes, informed the…
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More Year-End Love

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  • December 15, 2011
Rumpus contributor Roxane Gay’s book Ayiti was listed by the The National Book Critics Circle blog as one of their Small Press Highlights of 2011. Of Ayiti they write “The…
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Love you too, Harriet!

  • Brian Spears
  • December 15, 2011
Harriet, aka the Poetry Foundation blog, has posted an excerpt of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s recent chat with T. R. Hummer. Watch as I learn what the Bald Man…
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