The Last Poems I Loved: The Angel Island Poems
Like Alcatraz, Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay is often shrouded in fog. From 1910 to 1940, the island housed the immigration station and detention center for the West…
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Protected: The Rumpus Book Club Discussion 45 – Gina Frangello
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The Next Letter for Kids: Grant Baciocco
The next Letter for Kids, going out this Wednesday, is from Grant Baciocco. Baciocco is the creator/host of Henson’s podcast and a puppeteer for Stuffed & Unstrung. He also created several other award winning, family…
Nick Cave Monday #20: “Henry Lee”
Today we learn a valuable lesson. If you have a girlfriend, but you are in love with another girl and you tell your girlfriend that this other girl is way…
The Last Poem I Loved: “Untitled” by Tina Brown Celona
This poem begins with an epigraph: In poetry at least the imagination must not detach itself from reality… -Wallace Stevens I want to be in love forever and not like…
Lit-Link Round-up
Oh my god: Josip Novakovich is a finalist for The Booker Prize. Josip is a Sunday Rumpus alum, and an Other Voices Books and Dzanc Books author. He’s also on…
Links I Like
Last week we took a break from Carson Mell’s Tarantula. Now we are back with Episode 3. In case you missed these not Rumpus links in The Daily Rumpus: The Futile…
Poets Beyond the Barricade by Dale M Smith
In Washington, D. C. many years ago, Denise Levertov took questions after a reading and was asked if poets were obligated to protest with poetry when their government was acting…
The Lonely Voice #22: RIP Richard Stern
Richard Stern has died. Stern was a short story writer, novelist, and essayist. I’ve always been particularly fond of Stern’s short stories, which are as emotionally raw as they are…
Last Book I Loved + Tumblr Storyboard
We’re thrilled to be partnering with Tumblr Storyboard! Building on our Last Book I Loved series, we’re teaming up to highlight Tumblr writers and the books they love. Got a book you…
The Next Letter in the Mail: Melissa Febos
The next Letter in the Mail, going out this coming Wednesday, is from Melissa Febos. Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press/2010), which chronicles the four…