Saturday Morning Links
So if you look at the calendar, you’d think that today is the last day of National Poetry Month, but we don’t follow calendars all that closely here at The…
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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.
Want a Private Life? Don’t Become a Teacher
Judy Buranich teaches English at Midd West High School in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. She’s held that job for 25 years. Judy Mays writes erotic novels. By now, you probably know…
The Big Poetry Book Giveaway
Every year during National Poetry Month (you knew it was National Poetry Month, right?), Kelli Russell Agodon organizes the Big Poetry Book Giveaway. You may remember Kelli’s name from our…
Soviet Monuments Look Cool
That’s about all the praise I will ever give the Soviet Union–I’m not a fan of totalitarian regimes, no matter how much they claim to care about well-being of the…
Science Saturday
A discovery might make hydrogen fuel cells much cheaper. There’s a rumor–and that’s all it is–of a Higgs boson sighting. SpaceShip Two completed its longest glide test to date. The…
Saturday Morning Links
Because there are not enough cat sites on the internets. Dahlia Lithwick asks how judges can decide if threats against their colleagues are protected by the First Amendment. Remember Senator…
Science Saturday
I saw the Space Shuttle Enterprise in person in 1984 at the New Orleans World’s Fair. I only saw the outside, but for a 12 year old who’d grown up…
Saturday Morning Links
Poet Dean Young, the author of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection for April Fall HIgher, has apparently had successful heart transplant surgery. We wish him all the best and…
Poetic Lives Online
I hope you’ve been following along with our National Poetry Month project. For links to the poems we’ve already run as well as the poets to come, you can follow…
Science Saturday
I don’t usually post book reviews in this column, but hey, this seems relevant (and a way to test out the NY Times pay-wall workaround). How evolution explains altruism. The…
Saturday Morning Links
Here’s my NY Times pay-wall workaround. After I’ve used up my 20 free articles, I find a headline I of an article I want to read, right click on the…
Coates in San Francisco
Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose interview we ran today is reading tonight at the University of San Francisco as part of their Emerging Writers Festival. The site says that readings will begin…