Do you want to understand the mortgage meltdown?
Good luck. It’s confusing as all hell, especially if your understanding of the working of the economy is on a par with Mac and Dennis of Paddy’s Pub in Philadelphia.…
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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
First meeting of the term turned into drinking and eating and eating and drinking and a long headachey ride home. That’s what I call a good start. To absolutely no…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The Nepotist, if you’re unaware, is an online journal run by a person who publishes his/her friends, and does so anonymously. What’s the over/under, do you think, on someone either…
A Poetry Bestseller?
On the first day of every semester in my poetry classes, I ask my students if they can name a single living poet. About one in three classes comes up…
Science Saturday
The headline says it all: “Galactic Supervolcano Erupts From Black Hole“. That oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico? Still there, and no idea how long it’ll stay. The moon…
Saturday Morning Links
Is it Saturday already? My last week of vacation/first week of work went by a little quickly. How did medieval folks protect their DVDs? I haven’t written anything on the…
Prop 8 Update
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals continued Judge Vaughn Walker’s stay pending appeal. On the plus side (and I’m grasping here), the appeal was expedited, which means the process will…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The great MFA usefulness debate continues with a piece by Lev Raphael. (Here’s my contribution if you’re interested.) Barbara Jane Reyes gives Reginald Dwayne Betts’ book four of five stars.…
Discovering Daytrotter
I can’t say I agree with the premise that it’s more difficult to discover new and interesting music, but I can promise you I’ll be spending some time on Daytrotter.…
Science Saturday
What goes into the formation of an icicle? Arguing can be good for you, apparently. Tried to see the Perseids meteor shower on Thursday night, but down here light pollution…
Saturday Morning Links
It’s my little sister’s 40th birthday today. I doubt she’ll thank me for mentioning that here. HTMLGIANT jumps on the book club wagon (and we’re glad to have them). Their…
The Latest on Prop 8
The stay is lifted, sort of. Judge Vaughn Walker decided today that same-sex marriages can resume in California on August 18. You can read the final stay order here. Why…