Twin Cities by Carol Muske Dukes
Muske-Dukes's book seems the perfect read for this time of year when the year is winding down, yet life is still rumbling forward.
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Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Would Let Him Beat Them
Do you know what you’re saying? Do you really?
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #123
CUPID ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Cupid.
THE LONELY VOICE #16: Between the Public and the Sky (Part One of Five Stray Thoughts on Kafka)
Whoever leads a solitary life and yet now and then feels the need for some kind of contact…
Lit-Link Round-up
It’s a pretty fine time for galleys. I get a lot of galleys in the mail because of my role as the Fiction Editor over at The Nervous Breakdown. Sometimes,…
They Sing Wild Songs In New Keys
Marge Piercy’s unflinching clarity of vision continues to be the kind of sturdy example so vital to literature. She has long been teaching and in the public arena, on the…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #96: The Dark Cocoon
Transformation isn’t a butterfly. It’s the thing before you get to be a pretty bug flying away.
Ode to an Era of Polish Poetry
At The New Republic, Ruth Franklin celebrates the work of the late Wislawa Szymborska, and explores the brilliance of Polish poetry throughout the last half-century. “Assuming that there weren’t any…
The Last Book (of Poems) I Loved: Coeur de Lion
Ariana Reines’ Coeur De Lion makes me want to drink and have sex. Not frilly drinks but hard strong liquor, and not just any sex, but the stuff of human…
A Halfway House Where No One Leaves
In three very different but equally gorgeous sections, Griffith guides us through every poetic form from sonnet to villanelle, all while examining the idea of what it means to be…
“Disappearing,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Rob Griffith
Disappearing I’d like to cap this pen, lock the drawers, and take my coat off the chair. I’d stop the clocks at half-past two, then grab my keys
What We Need to Know
Since writing “The Careless Language of Sexual Violence,” I have started paying more attention to how the media reports on sexual abuse and rape cases, the ways the media frames…