A Rumpus Meditation on Editors, Ambition, and Angry Dependence (in 33 loosely jointed parts): 1. On July 30, the managing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, Kevin Morrissey, took his…
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Graduation Party It looks, from a distance, like a track and field tourney: so much avid motion in shorts and…
A special Rumpus lamentation with possible added pep talk. *** So last week the New Yorker published their once-a-decade Fiction Issue, in which they printed eight stories, along with their…
[L]et me introduce my former student Tracey Wigfield, who is now a writer for the television program 30 Rock. I am so happy for Tracey that I am now weeping inconsolably.
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) To the Men At Work Outside My Window See here, fellows: It is me, your skinny-stemmed little daisy faggot boy…