LETTERS TO EACH OTHER III
Last week, we kicked off our third round of Letters to Each Other. The way it works is you send us a letter, no more than one page (front and back…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Things They Do Look Awful Cold — Talking ‘Bout My Generation
About eight or nine years ago I caught a ride from Northampton, Massachusetts to New York City with the poet Matthew Rohrer. We’d given a reading a few nights earlier…
A Rumpus Book Clubs Update
The Book Clubs are rocking right now with this month’s selections, George Saunders’s Tenth of December and Camille Guthrie’s Articulated Lair, but there’s some great stuff on the horizon.
In Beauty Bright by Gerald Stern
Having never read Gerald Stern’s poetry before, I took This Time: New and Selected Poems out from the library. The book won the National Book Award in 1998, and it…
Swinging Modern Sounds #40: A Miscellany of Musical Thoughts That Will Not Otherwise Appear
From June through December of 2012, I kept a diary of musical impressions that didn’t develop into longer pieces.
SELF-MADE MAN #19: Notes on Negative Space
I’ve known what many would call evil: child abuse, a close call with a murderer. I know about other people’s dark impulses, and so I’ve been all the more terrified of my own.
Nick Cave Monday #18: “Lucy”
Who is Lucy? Nick’s ex-girlfriend? A ballerina? Whoever she was, we all have our Lucy. The woman who died too young. If you don’t have a Lucy yet, be assured,…
Lit-Link Round-up
The world seems to be zooming towards a beautiful George Saunders tipping point. Hard to swing a cat without hitting how freaking awesome he is. Nice to see this in the…
Notable Los Angeles 1/12-1/18
Saturday 1/12: WriteGirl celebrates the book launch of No Character Limit Truth & Fiction! Meet the authors, and if you arrive an hour early, Rumpus Children’s Correspondence Editor Cecil Castellucci will…
Links I Like
Two of my favorite LA-based writers are Rumpus Contributors Antonia Crane and Melissa Chadburn. I admire and respect them as people and writers. This week, Melissa wrote her take on…
Counterpart by Elizabeth Robinson
Marisa Siegel reviews Elizabeth Robinson’s Counterpart today in Rumpus Poetry.
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…