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Dispatch from the Carnival #4: Taking in the Sword

What is this body if you take its power over you away? In the torture arts, you are both the creator and recipient of your pain.

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Letters Blog

Letters for Kids Signed Book Giveaway

We’re doing another Letters for Kids giveaway! Win a beautiful hardcover edition of Breaking the Ice, signed by the author Gail Nall. (Gail also wrote our next Letter for Kids.) For…

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FUNNY WOMEN #129: Consumer Reviews

My baby girl calls this her “fun cage” and since we installed it, she giggles more. And so do I. This gate has made me a happier and more sexually-satisfied person.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Midnight in the Century

...today’s poetry apologists for the Iraq war just keep repeating their intelligence error odes. Wouldn’t it be better, however, if they would address the horror of the failed effort in Iraq?

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Julie Iromuanya

The Rumpus Book Club chats with Julie Iromuanya about her new book Mr. and Mrs. Doctor, writing an unlikeable main character, and worrying about your parents reading your finished book.

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One Thousand Things Worth Knowing by Paul Muldoon

Ann Van Buren reviews Paul Muldoon's One Thousand Things Worth Knowing today in Rumpus Poetry.

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Letters Blog

Next Letter in the Mail: Ben Dolnick

We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Ben Dolnick! Ben writes a very funny letter about the “strangeness of traveling alone” while his plane is delayed…

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Next Letter for Kids: Gail Nall

We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Gail Nall! Gail writes about her childhood pen pals and about one of her most embarrassing moments. She says she’s not good at drawing, but has…

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River House by Sally Keith

Jessie Carty reviews Sally Keith's River House today in Rumpus Poetry.

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Make/Work Episode 31: Aurora Tang

In episode 31 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with researcher/curator Aurora Tang, who has built a career around thinking about sustainability for artists and arts organizations.

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