Science Saturday
Cockroach brains may contain the next great anti-microbial compound. Who knew? Great images of Saturn and 4 of its moons from the Cassini space probe. Great interview dealing with 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.
Saturday Morning Links
Insert not-quite-as-witty-as-I-thought-when-I-first-wrote-it remark here. Is the long novel back? Terry Eagleton versus The Holy See. The Vatican never had a chance in this one. When I heard about the idea…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
If you were a member of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club, you’d be involved in the conversation Gabrielle Calvocoressi is leading about Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation. You’d also have…
Let the Alphabattle Begin!
Okay, it’s been going on for a while now since they’re up to N, but via Christian Bok, check out AlphaBattle, a contest to see who can design the coolest…
Ever Wonder How Student Loans Work?
There’s been a lot of talk the last few years about the increased cost of a college degree, and how government aid hasn’t kept pace with need. Lots of politicians…
Science Saturday
I almost always start these with a link from the Wired Science blog, but how do I choose today? Here are the top 4 right now: two stories onexoplanets, NASA…
Saturday Morning Links
I’m starting to believe that there is nothing in this world more likely to destroy one’s schedule than Netflix Streaming. Quick question about Park 51. Almost everyone objecting to it…
The Ultimate in Recycling
It’s just a coincidence that I’ll be teaching the Wendell Berry poem “Enriching the Earth” tomorrow, a poem which ends with the lines “And so what was heaviest / and…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Last week, I made a snarky comparison of Kent Johnson’s theory about the authorship of a Frank O’Hara poem to Andrew Sullivan’s continual questions about who exactly Trig Palin’s mother…
Would you like to write (about poetry) for The Rumpus?
Of course you would. Who wouldn’t? We’d like to know the last book you loved. Send us a writeup of the last poem or book of poems you truly loved,…
The Return of Tri-Quarterly
Last year, you might remember, it looked like the journal Tri-Quarterly was a goner. Lots of concerns–valid one, I want to note–about how well the journal would go through the…
Science Saturday
The story of the faster-than-wind wind-driven vehicle is fascinating, not so much for the actual machine, but for the rancor the debate stirred up online. Very good read though. Studying…