The More Things Change…
In 1968, the year I was born, Ronald Reagan was considered too extreme to be the Republican nominee for the presidency. Richard Nixon was the nominee and served a term…
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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.
Science Saturday
Sorry this is late–the line for early voting was longer than I expected. That’s a good thing, though, so I’m fine with this being a little late if you are.…
Saturday Morning Links
I’m voting this morning because there’s no possible way for me to vote on Tuesday. It’s clichéd to say this, but I do it anyway–no matter what your political views,…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I realize that NBA basketball is too pop culture-y for us at The Rumpus, but the poetry contest that the Miami Herald put together for the arrival of LeBron James…
Yes, Mechanics Matter (to me, anyway)
Roxane Gay at HTMLGIANT has an interesting piece on the issue of clean, mechanically-sound writing, especially in the creative world, and muses on whether or not the ease of publication…
Science Saturday
The Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity succeeded beyond everyone’s greatest hopes. Now, NASA is building a new Mars rover named Curiosity, which is much larger and heavier than the earlier…
The Latest from Wikileaks
Wikileaks has released 400,000 secret US Army field reports from the Iraq conflict. The UK Guardian has extensive coverage of what’s included in them, and it’s stomach-churning stuff. Why am…
Happy Birthday, Creation!
The universe is officially 6,013 years old today, according to the calculations of James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland. I think we should throw the universe…
Saturday Morning Links
This gets my vote as headline of the week. And it might be good advice if you’re looking to boost voter turnout. Maybe we could offer these as premiums. Are…
Best of The Rumpus?
Update: I’m moving this to the top so we can get some more nominations in the comments. We’ll need to make some final choices in the very near future, so…
National Feral Cat Day
There really is a day set aside for everything, I think, not that I mind in this case. I discovered via Balloon Juice that today is National Feral Cat Day,…
Welcome to the World of Tomorrow
I found this link while nosing around for Science Saturday, and decided I wanted to do a post on it by itself. Popular Mechanics and Gregory Benford are releasing a…