Wikileaks Roundup
In my TED roundup on Saturday, I linked to a conversation with Julian Assange of Wikileaks, an organization which has, according to Assange, released more classified documents in the last…
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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.
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I really had planned on doing this column ahead of time last week, but Friday night found me under the kitchen sink teaching myself how to unhook a garbage disposal…
Lately on Ted
I like to do these roundups every so often as an excuse for sitting around and watching videos for the better part of an afternoon. Enjoy! Tan Le has developed…
Jeff Bezos Talks About Character
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, gave a fairly pedestrian and tedious commencement address at Princeton earlier this year, which is no crime–commencement addresses are supposed to be pedestrian and tedious unless…
Science Saturday
The news on Tropical Storm Bonnie is good, especially since it seems the storm will come ashore at low tide, reducing the amount of oil likely to inundate the coastal…
Saturday Morning Links
Miss me? Last Saturday was the birthday of my partner of nearly ten years (and occasional Rumpus contributor) Amy Letter. That’s worth a day off, right? Two days ago, I…
More Paris Review
Josh Corey tells the story of his de-acceptance from The Paris Review over at WWAATD. To catch up on this story click here.
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Have you heard? The Rumpus is a place for poetry. (My own thoughts on this subject here.) If you’re looking for a journal to subscribe to, Gulf Coast is a…
Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla
How are you planning to spend Nikola Tesla day? I first experienced Tesla, I’m almost ashamed to admit, in the fiction of Spider Robinson, but the fictionalized version intrigued me…
Science Saturday
“No evidence of scientific malpractice and no reason to doubt the credibility of the scientific claims being made by the East Anglia researchers.” For all the soccer/football fans out there:…