The Place I Won’t Walk Away From
At 6 p.m. on a Tuesday evening at a bar on Sunset Boulevard, I was drinking a pint and reading Lone Wolf and Cub. S. walked in and sat down…
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Why I Chose Camille Guthrie’s Articulated Lair for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
These poems are not traps, but safe spaces with doors inside them.
Periodicity by Iris A. Law
Iris A. Law’s fearless debut work, Periodicity, operates through a unique structural conceit that lushly unfolds across the arc of the chapbook: each poem takes as its subject matter a…
The Rumpus Book Club Conversation with Manuel Gonzales
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Manuel Gonzales about The Miniature Wife, subverting genre, building a believable fictional world, and the invention of paper towels.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Viva Richard Blanco!
As of today the question of whether President Barack Obama or former Governor Mitt Romney won the Cuban vote in Florida, traditionally a solid Republican bloc, remains in dispute. Back…
Wikipedia Says It Will Pass by Diana Salier
Wikipedia is not to be trusted, at least not entirely. We all know this. (For a brief period in August of 2009 the first sentence of the “Trees” poet—“Poems are…
Swinging Modern Sounds #39: Interview within an Interview
In this piece, we are not at any time meant to use the word greatness to refer to a band from Boston, Big Dipper, best known during the late eighties, for the three fine studio albums, the last of which, Slam, was released on Epic Records in 1990.
Lit-Link Round-up
This is a stunner from Chloe Caldwell: “My Year of Heroin and Acne.” I’m liking Salon’s “Body Issues” series. Here’s “Sexy Dresses That Barely Fit” by Lily Burana. I’m radically…
Notable Los Angeles
The following is a short list of literary LA happenings: Saturday 1/5: Dave Ross and Jake Weissman host Two-Headed Beast, a story-telling show. I’ve seen great comedians participate. Two of…
Links I Like
Meiko Takechi Arquillos took this photo of a preteen, and the portrait is beautiful and complex and true. This photograph reminds me of Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. Do you know her work? If not,…
“Stingray Clapping” by Andrew Choate
Perhaps what is most thrilling about Stingray Clapping, Andrew Choate’s enigmatic collection of tonal, non-sequitur phrases, is that the book compels the reader to imagine the amoral absurdities of phrases…
