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“Elena Wears the Robe”: The Rumpus Inaugural Poem
On August 5, 2010, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. She will be the 112th person to serve on the Court, and the 4th woman. The Rumpus is happy to mark this occasion with…
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Book Club News
So you’re torn between the Rumpus Book Club and the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. You want both, and who could blame you. But it’s just a smidge too pricey for you. Well, if you join both at the same time,…
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Science Saturday
Two spiral galaxies collided a hundred million years ago. The pictures just got back from the developer. (Is that joke too out of date now? Maybe.) The UN added 21 sites to its World Heritage List in furtherance of its…
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Things You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know
My main question about this Wikipedia entry is “who took the time to count all the fucks?” This is the non-porn list, just to be clear. I was a little surprised that The Aristocrats was so far down the list.
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Saturday Morning Links
I have one cat who carries around a catnip-filled mouse in her mouth and quacks. I have another who barks. The other two make regular appearances on my Facebook page. Yeah. I’m one of those people. Jordan Carr of The…
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On DVD: 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless
“The best journeys answer questions that, in the beginning, you didn’t even think to ask.” Questions are both asked and acted upon in Chris Malloy’s 180° South. The documentary is a cautionary tale of adventure in a decaying world, following…
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James Franco’s Insane Anti-Career
If you’re looking for a long profile of a celebrity to read this weekend (and why wouldn’t you be?) you should choose this one: Sam Anderson’s profile of James Franco in New York magazine. You should read it just based…
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This is Beach Art. This is Life. This is Living Beach Art.
I spend my time on the ocean or walking in its sands. I’ve seen some really beautiful pieces of art made from driftwood and plastic bottles, wash-out lines drawn in ever-flowing sand, pieces of oceana. But never have I seen…
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Opium and LDM in England
The Guardian ran a big feature today about the “new wave of literary events” in England, which highlights Todd Zuniga’s Opium and the Literary Death Match. (Matches are being held in Edinburgh and London on August 10th and 11th, respectively.)
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #19: Graduation Party
(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 T-shirts the college field house rented for the occasion
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Farewell to Pindeldyboz
A couple months ago the litmag Pindeldyboz announced that it would be going dark and looking for a way to keep everything published in it available somehow: now the site is updated with their Farewell Edition.
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As If the Stars Invented Dinner
So what are Mazer’s actual poems like? They are, in their way, haunted.