Saturday Morning Links
So, December. So you’re starting a PAC and you need a name for it, something bland and generic and completely de-emphasizing your plan to replace all the caffeinated coffee in…
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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.
Wikileaks Embassy Cables Roundup
The decision by Wikileaks to release over 250,000 US Embassy cables is a threat to democracy. Or it’s no big deal. Or there’s nothing really surprising in there. Or it…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
It’s been a while since I did one of these–life got in the way a bit–but I’m back with some links from the world of poetry for you. If you’re…
An Odd Definition of Losing
The Southern Poverty Law Center recently added the Family Research Council, along with a number of other fundamentalist Christian groups, to its list of hate groups because of their anti-gay…
Science Saturday
I don’t imagine there are many climate change deniers in this neighborhood, though you never can tell. Forget satellites–use pulsars to find your way around. Reptiles weren’t the only ones…
Saturday Morning Links
Hard to believe that it’s only been eleven months since shopping season for last Christmas ended. It goes by so fast. It doesn’t take much to make the terrorist watch…
Here’s Who You Hit Up For a Beer
The NEA has announced their creative writing fellows in creative writing for 2010-2011. Among the winners are some people whose work we’ve featured here at The Rumpus: Jericho Brown (also…
Underwater Sculpture
Meet Jason de Caires Taylor. He creates life-sized cement sculptures of people in various poses and then sinks them into the waters of South America, where they become part of…
Bring On the Robot Cars
When I lived in San Francisco, I didn’t own a car. My partner did, a compact pickup, and we used it when we wanted to get out of the city…
Science Saturday
It still amazes me that scientists can even find planets in other systems, but to figure out that this one was once part of another galaxy is incredible . Scientists…
Saturday Morning Links
If my life is ever made into a movie, I want it aired on SyFy, & I want some sort of combination animal involved, like a sharktopus, only cooler. And…
Why I Chose Jena Osman’s The Network for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears on why he chose Jena Osman’s The Network as the fourth selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.