Saturday Mid-Morning Links
Morning, everyone. I was up late last night catching “Death at a Funeral.” Go see it. Trust me on this. Make sure you watch the slide-show on this piece about…
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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.
Cradle Song
Cradle Song is more than poetry. Stacey Lynn Brown has written a cultural history of the south, of its tenuous and tendentious relationships, of the complicated and often disturbing power…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Most of the excitement this week is in Denver at the AWP Conference, but there’s still plenty to talk about in poetry. For instance, have you been keeping up with…
Celebrating 300 Years of Copyright
Counterpoint asked “a lot of people” (as Cory Doctorow put it) to reflect on the world of copyright on the 300th anniversary of the passage of Queen Anne’s Law, and…
Science Saturday
Late start today, so no morning links, but here’s some science for you. In the great paper book/e-book debate, some dyslexics have a firm preference for e-books. Scientists in Japan…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month project? The list is updated every morning with new poemy goodness. Along with National Poetry Month, the big discussion this…
Unpaid Internships on the Rise
When I became an undergraduate eleven years ago, I was married, had two kids, and piles of bills to pay. By the time I was far enough along to think…
Science Saturday
Most of the time in this space, I link to stories about new discoveries or great photos or cool gadgets, but this story might be more important. Simon Singh is…
Saturday (Mid) Morning Links
I’m pushing these back a bit in order to give some time at the top to our Rumpus Original Poems lineup for National Poetry Month. It has nothing to do…
National Poetry Month at The Rumpus
I like to think that April was named National Poetry Month because it was inspired by the success of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, and April was next…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The poet Ai Ogawa died last week, and her official obituary is available here. Oliver de la Paz, who knew her briefly while he was in graduate school, had a…