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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.
Science Saturday
Martian landscapes that will blow your mind. There’s water on the moon, and that has implications for future manned space travel. Unmanned non-lethalwhale hunting looks pretty cool. To protect yourself…
Notable South Florida, This Week 11/14-11/20
This weekend in south Florida, all the cultural talk is about the Miami Book Fair, and while it is generally dominated by the same sort of pop culture excrescence one…
Saturday Morning Links
So last Saturday, I woke up 41 years old, hung over, and with a non-responsive computer. Doornail-quality dead. Gray screen, blinking folder with question mark, oh crap I can’t afford…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
There will be a memorial gathering for Craig tomorrow, November 1, at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, New York City) from 5-8pm. A brief program of readers will begin…
The MFA Rankings Wars
Last week in my Poetic Lives Online column, I wrote a little about the immediate reaction to the Poets & Writers MFA program rankings. Well, it’s blown up a bit…
The Adderall Diaries Book Tour
Check out the video from Stephen Elliott’s stop in Fort Lauderdale on his book tour. Sorry, no video of the woman “poured into a tight black dress with lace webbing…
Science Saturday
Happy 40th birthday to the internet. Just don’t go buying a Harley to prove you’re still vibrant. In what may be the most counter-intuitive finding in recent years, the internet…
Stephen Elliott in Fort Lauderdale
Part 1 of Stephen Elliott’s reading at his Fort Lauderdale stop on The Adderall Diaries national book tour. Here’s part two and part 3 of the reading.
Saturday Morning Links
Happy Halloween! Don’t get arrested for going trick-or-treating dressed as Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen. It may be too late to order this as a last-minute Halloween costume, but I’m sure…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Can you tell the difference between E. E. Cummings and a YouTube commenter? (It’s really not as hard as it looks.) Caroline Guinzio has been guest blogging at Unstressed this…