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FUNNY WOMEN #51 (INAUGURAL AUDIO EDITION): Ayn Rand’s Headcheese

The Atlas Shrugged movie has opened–and we have the antidote. Rebecca Coffey recorded and musically scored (really!) “Ayn Rand’s Headcheese” recipe. Listen or download the podcast here.

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National Poetry Month, Day 19: “Deer between fallen branches” by Ely Shipley

Deer between fallen branches Snow fills the eyes of the winter animal. She’s like a photograph of himself as a child, feet dangling over the side of a boat, skimming

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Katy Bowman: The Last Book I Loved, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

The last book that I loved was Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I have tried for the better part of three days to figure out how to write this review/adoration. I wanted…

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National Poetry Month, Day 18: “Transparent to Visible Light” by Samiya Bashir

Transparent to Visible Light Across the seas, and then across the seas, an aircraft carried full and whole a world: as far apart as their fair hostess could achieve sat…

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National Poetry Month, Day 17: “Ode to Government Cheese” by Oscar Bermeo

Ode to Government Cheese The streets are alive with your radioactive smile, your distinct glow, not quite pumpkin, not quite squash, not quite orange; no, not anything organic.

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National Poetry Month, Day 16: “Missed Connection” by Kelli Russell Agodon

Missed Connection You: Bartender at the left wing bar, sleeves rolled up, preaching happiness, Fredrich Nietzsche. Small scar across your chin. We high-fived, nodded about get-out-the-vote rallies, about Gore, Clinton,…

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Book Club Blog

We All Feel Suspended: Book Club Round-Up

Dean Young is one of the freshest, boldest, most confident poets out there; his poems’ structures are completely unique, often winding out of control before settling into moments of recognition…

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Mena Reynolds: The Last Book I Loved, Denial: A Memoir of Terror

Jessica Stern is one of the world’s foremost experts in terrorism—the 9/11 kind of terrorism. As an unarmed woman, she went into some of the world’s scariest countries, met some…

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National Poetry Month, Day 15: “Persona Ficta” by Jena Osman

Jena Osman’s The Network was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection for November, 2010. You can read Brian Spears’s essay on why he chose the book here and the Rumpus…

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #70: A Motorcycle With No One On It

Z is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Beautiful. Going nowhere.

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Meghan Daniels: The Last Book I Loved, Anna Karenina

Okay, so maybe most of you have already read this novel. Because it is a classic, because you went to college, because Oprah featured it on her book club. But…

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