Blogs
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National Poetry Month Day 2: “To Mercury, In Retrograde” by Randall Mann
To Mercury, In Retrograde This ointment isn’t helping. This clinic isn’t free. The nurse’s favorite movie is Penitentiary III.
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Make Mine a Double Decker
San Francisco residents (or anyone amused by public transportation shenanigans) should look no further than Muni Diaries’s Five Best Muni Moments. Favorite: “a rider saw two guys selling Starbucks coffee beans out of a suitcase on the back of the 22-Fillmore.…
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Nick Cave Monday #29: “Avalanche”
Around the year of our Lord 1984, there were fans of The Birthday Party wandering aimless through the streets. Their post-punk gods vanished. But, just like a dude named Jesus, there would soon come a resurrection, into a different body…
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National Poetry Month Day 1: “To Find Stars In Another Language” by Elizabeth Bradfield
Elizabeth Bradfield wrote the first poem we published here on The Rumpus, so I’m pleased to have her kick off this year’s National Poetry Month project. Elizabeth’s poem is more than just a written piece, however: it’s a collaboration between…
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Welcome to National Poetry Month 2013
This is the 5th(!) year that The Rumpus has done a National Poetry Month project, wherein we run a new, previously unpublished poem each day of the month (and sometimes we edge a little bit into May–we refuse to be…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Republican House Set to Banish Poets from America
“The subcommittee’s bill breaks the promise that this country has made to poets”
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Notable Los Angeles: 3/30-4/5
Saturday 3/30: Ronald K.L. Collins & David M. Skover presents and signs Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution. Free event. 4:00 p.m. at Book Soup. Sunday 3/31: It’s Easter Sunday. Let’s get…
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Links I Like
I received a letter from Seth Fischer and he sounded so happy. I laughed at this part of his letter: “How is your family? Your health? I want answers where you avoid the questions! I miss that.” Usually when Seth asks…
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The Right Place to Jump by Peter Covino
Marisa Siegel reviews Peter Covino’s The Right Place to Jump today in Rumpus Poetry.
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This is Not About Birds by Nick Ripatrazone
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Nick Ripatrazone’s This is Not About Birds today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Unnamed
Little bits of The Unnamed are stuck in my head. A man clinging to a telephone pole in a flood. A daughter and her father on a bench in Tompkins Square Park. A sense of loss. A sense of isolation.
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Amazon.com & Goodreads Link Up
Today, the Goodreads’ social network of book reviews and reading suggestions was acquired by online retail giant Amazon. While we are super bummed about this, Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s Vice President, says: “Amazon and Goodreads share a passion for reinventing reading. Goodreads has helped…