Blogs
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Swinging Modern Sounds #64: Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!
Many of you will not want to believe that “Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!” by the Californian punk band the Urinals, is the greatest song ever written, but that is simply because there is some kind of vise or blood-occluding mechanism…
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Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems 1970-2014 by Don McKay
Jim Johnstone reviews Don McKay’s Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems 1970-2014 today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Animalities by David Dodd Lee
Jessica Guzman Alderman reviews David Dodd Lee’s Animalities today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Do-Over by Kathleen Ossip
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kathleen Ossip’s The Do-Over today in Rumpus Poetry.
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FUNNY WOMEN #127: Low-Maintenance
Hey eligible, employed, virile men of the world! Aren’t you sick of hot girls who are so high-maintenance… and don’t even realize it?
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Paul Vangelisti
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Paul Vangelisti about Amiri Baraka’s S O S Poems 1961-2013, as well as Baraka’s place among American writers and the ways in which his poetry and politics intersected and collided.
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Letters for Kids Signed Book Giveaway
We’re doing another Letters for Kids giveaway! Win a signed copy of Frans Vischer’s Fuddles, with a special hand-drawn illustration just for you! (Frans also wrote our next Letter for Kids.) All you have to do for a chance to win…
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Barely Composed by Alice Fulton
Casey Patrick reviews Alice Fulton’s Barely Composed today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Coming in April from The Rumpus Book Clubs
We’re very excited about our selections for April, and we hope that you will be as well. Maybe so excited that if you aren’t a member yet, you’ll become one. (Also, a book club subscription makes a great gift. Seriously.)…
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Make/Work Episode 29: David Meltzer and Julie Rogers
In episode 29 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with poets David Meltzer and Julie Rogers about maintaining a long-term creative practice, the role of poetry in the US, music, and politics.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Derek Palacio
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from writer Derek Palacio. Derek writes to us from “ a place that is not home” about the person to whom he wrote the most difficult letters in his life.…
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Next Letter for Kids: Frans Vischer
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Frans Vischer! Frans writes to us about how he overcame his childhood shyness and learned the art of animation, eventually working for The Walt Disney Company. He’s worked on films such as The…