Why I Chose Elizabeth Alexander’s Crave Radiance for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears on why he chose Elizabeth Alexander’s Crave Radiance as the third selection of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
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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.
Nicole Walker in Rumpus Original Poems
We have a surprise for you at the end of Sean Singer’s review of Nicole Walker’s This Noisy Egg, a link to a new poem from Walker. It’s called “Call…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The Essential American Poets series selection this week is Carl Sandburg. I’d never heard his voice before, and it was nothing like I’d expected. I suppose I’d assumed he sounded…
From the Suicide Note of Mitchell Heisman
Mitchell Heisman killed himself last Saturday, but what’s best known about him thus far is his 1,900 page suicide note. HTMLGIANT has excerpted a very small portion of the note.…
Science Saturday
It’s kind of odd to see hurricanes as the International Space Station sees them, if only because of the superstructure in the frame and the angle of the video. Plus,…
Saturday Morning Links
Today’s blogging comes to you courtesy of the grading I’m escaping from. Scott Horton at Harper’s points to a study of prosecutorial misconduct in the Justice Department put together by…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I think we’re just a couple of days away from announcing our next two books for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. The logistics for this thing are a bear sometimes,…
The Predictive Power of Social Networks
If you’re a regular reader of the Saturday Rumpus, you know I love Ted.com. I’m a sucker for the presentations of new tech and new research, and even of the…
Science Saturday
Ever wonder why mobile phone chatterers get on your nerves? The term “lab rat” might have been “lab raccoon at one point. How good are you at knowing when you’re…
Saturday Morning Links
Sometimes I wish I had a second computer just to grade my students’ papers with, so I could accidentally drop that computer into the toilet. Do you know who Ines…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Jenny Hendrix in The New Yorker wades into the question of whether or not song lyrics are poetry. She’s responding to Kristen Hoggatt at The Smart Set, who’s responding to…
Too Many Quests, Too Many Grails
Really funny piece in Neatorama about the overuse of the holy grail metaphor in science writing. It’s gotten so bad that the term has been banned from the Chemical and…