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National Poetry Month: Day 21. “Questions for the Quest” by Reb Livingston

Questions for the Quest Zirconza of the Blest Flare wanted her someday sometime soon. How was she—with those flinty fingers—supposed to feed those slippy fishes? That was the first question.

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FUNNY WOMEN #22: My Life as Performance Art–An Exhibition

“I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.” – Marina Abramovic

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National Poetry Month: Day 20. “Something In the Water” by Alison Pelegrin

Something in the Water Verboten, casual, Katrina-slash-this-is-the-writer’s-life poem, another rule breaker best abandoned. At sea. Overboard in a wine bottle, in a milk jug float.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #21: On William Basinski

William Basinski was born in Texas in 1958, and, after a childhood playing wind instruments, he became in the early-eighties a composer of ambient and minimalist compositions.

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #32

CHUCK MURPHY REVIEWS THE WORLD ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing “Chuck Murphy Reviews the…

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The Last Book I Loved: We’re Getting On

Is this the apocalypse? Maybe. It could just be a personal problem. James Kaelan’s We’re Getting On was the last book to remind me why I love books so much.…

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National Poetry Month: Day 19. “Boulder” by Sidney Wade

Boulder this world is full of beautiful surprises

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National Poetry Month: Day 18. “Things Unso” by Seth Abramson

Things Unso If the wind takes the house it will be someone else’s soon enough, and they too

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National Poetry Month: Day 17. “English Sonnet” by Dan Albergotti

English Sonnet As an illustration of the need for spelling reform in English, someone (apparently not, as often attributed, George Bernard Shaw) pointed out that—taking the pronunciation of the letters…

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National Poetry Month: Day 16. “The Blue” by Camille Dungy

The Blue One will live to see the Caterpillar rut everything they walk on—seacliff buckwheat cleared, relentless ice plant to replace it, the wild fields bisected

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #32: It’s So Much Easier to Be the Blowjob Queen

Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back?

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The Last Book I Loved: Just Kids

I finished reading Just Kids by Patti Smith at Four Barrel on Valencia Street in San Francisco and although I tried my hardest to blink them back, tears kept falling…

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