Blogs
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Reading Chairs
Luckily, there’s a website devoted to fancy chairs. If that’s not enough, in anticipation for the Salone del Mobile furniture fair, fellow bookworms across the world wide web have been marking off their favorite reader-friendly models. Hey book lovers, please take…
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National Poetry Month Day 3: “To Biespiel From United Flight 1037” by David Biespiel
To Biespiel From United Flight 1037 — Greensboro to Atlanta Dear Brother — I used to think of death all the time, And then for a time I didn’t, or didn’t try to, And now I do not expect to…
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Theophobia by Bruce Beasley
Julie Marie Wade reviews Bruce Beasley’s Theophobia today in Rumpus Poetry.
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National Poetry Month
April Fools and the beginning of National Poetry Month? Seems like a killer day to us! [April 1] marks the start of National Poetry Month, the monthlong celebration of the verse inaugurated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets. The…
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FUNNY WOMEN #99: Modern Vice
We were tired of being good, so we decided to start sinning. We didn’t want to kill anybody or steal anything, so we stuck to modern vice.
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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…