Congratulations
Poet D. A. Powell, a subject of a Supersized Combos last April, has been announced the winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University.
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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
Philip Pullman writes about Blake’s poetry, and argues that it can be appreciated separate from the illuminations. Thermos interviews Katy Lederer, who we reviewed nearly a year ago. Anindita Sengupta…
Rumpus Twitterers
You already knew the Rumpus has a Twitter feed, but that’s just not enough. You need more. You crave tweets from the people who make The Rumpus happen. It’s like…
Notes on E-books and Readers
The big news this week was the iPad announcement, including the tech-world’s dismissal of it. (Fraser Speirs addresses that nicely.) But there’s a lot more happening in the world of…
Science Saturday
If the moon seemed overly large last night, there’s a reason why. Our DNA is only half-human. What’s the rest of us made from? California has claimed the first moon-landing…
Saturday Morning Links
Call me a Philistine, but I felt Howard Zinn’s death way more than J.D. Salinger’s. Here’s some links for your Saturday morning. Dahlia Lithwick examines the contradictions and contortions KBR…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
It’s Saturday night and it’s poetry time. Who else is excited? I always figured the Irish got excited about poetry. Roddy Doyle says otherwise. I’m late to the game in…
Science Saturday
Flashier birds produce stronger sperm. I wonder how that would play out in human males? Hi-Res flyover pictures will help in the Haiti recovery. Satellite photos have been good, but…
Anthony Atala on Growing New Organs
From Ted.com, Anthony Atala demonstrates the medical technology that grows new organs from a body’s own cells, thus eliminating the problem of rejection.
Confusing Metaphor with Reality
In her scathing piece for Slate about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Dahlia Lithwick compares the Supreme Court’s actions to those of the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio, saying that…
Saturday Morning Links
What happens when Vanity Fair wanders into Kentucky to tour a Creationist Museum? Go see the destruction for yourself. Don “Moose” Lewis wants everyone to know that he’s not a…
The Latest on Haiti
Some people in Haiti are riding out the earthquake in decent shape. Any guesses who? As we mentioned yesterday,