Carrie Chappell is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. Her poetry has appeared in Anastamos, Blue Mesa Review, CALAMITY, Cimarron Review, Cream City Review, FORTH Magazine, Harpur Palate, Juked, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and The Volta. Her essays have been published in The Collagist, Diagram, FANZINE, The Iowa Review, Xavier Review, and Buried Letter Press. Each April she curates the Verse of April project, a digital anthology of homage to the poets. Currently, she serves as Poetry Editor for Sundog Lit and lives in Paris, France.
In an extensive two–part Boston Review interview, Paula M.L. Moya talks with Junot Díaz about race and gender in his writing, emotional decolonization, and Monstro, his novel in progress. “There’s that…
Andrew Orvedahl, comedian, Rumpus friend, and creator of The Narrators, is performing on Friday and Saturday at Punch Line San Francisco. You can purchase tickets here.
At The Millions, Jessica Gross reviews Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed’s forthcoming collection of Dear Sugar columns. “Sugar forces us to swallow sometimes painful realizations about what we want, who…
Black Girl Dangerous provides a step-by-step guide on how “reverse-racist!” people of color can continue the oppression of white people, beginning with the enslavement of white bodies and ending with…
McSweeney’s is throwing a summertime garage sale in San Francisco! Head over to 849 Valencia St. on Sunday, July 1st (between 11am and 4pm) to take advantage of steep discounts…
SF Weekly got Jonathan Richman to agree to answer some questions—by way of snail mail. Richman, who is gearing up for a show this Sunday at The Make-Out Room, shares…
The Tomorrow Magazine team reached their funding goal within five hours of launching a Kickstarter yesterday. Congrats! Tomorrow is continuing to accept donations in order to pay contributors, fund design,…
Subscriptions to The Believer are $5 off all week long in celebration of their upcoming 2012 music issue. The issue features a free cassette tape (and digital download) curated by…
“Tomorrow is a one-shot magazine about creative destruction—a fitting concept for eight recently unemployed journalists and designers. Our next move: Pushing others to jump out of their comfort zones, too,…
Rumpus contributor Maddie Oatman profiles Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad for Mother Jones. What happens when a nerdy science show experiments with live stage performances? A sneak peak: “‘Even Charles Darwin himself—Chuck…
At Salon, Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay writes about the cheering of Sandusky’s guilty verdict, and our spectacle-centric culture. “The pictures are the story. The videos are the story. The…
Competence without comprehension. The Wizard of Oz, behind the scenes. An animated short film full of blue: “Backwater.” Human-powered helicopter hovers for 50 seconds.