Blogs
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #35: Waiting By the Phone
But of course you’d know. You always knew.
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Underground America: Permanent Anxiety
“The Arizona law is not the problem. The problem is that we continue, on all sides of the political spectrum, to not listen to those most directly affected by immigration policy: immigrants themselves.”
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FUNNY WOMEN #23: Post-Apocalyptic American Girl Dolls
Meet Felicity! After the 2770 Rebellion of the Virginias, all of America (including American Swaziland) is controlled by the reanimated head of Senator Robert C. Byrd. Felicity thinks this is wrong, but how can she maintain her convictions when her…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #34
PILGRIM PROMS ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Pilgrim proms.
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THE BLURB #16: Hungrier, More Successful, a Bit Ruthless
A review of David Goodwillie’s American Subversive that veers off into some really important and complicated and basically unanswerable questions about literature, literary reviews, overstimulation, secret weapons, and 21st century life.
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National Poetry Month: Day 31. “Paper Person” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Paper Person I trace paper’s origins to ancient China, where a eunuch in the Imperial Household collects wasps. He watches them bounce against oiled panes of linen, chew
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National Poetry Month: Day 30. From “The Tinajera Notebook” by Forrest Gander
From “The Tinajera Notebook Synthesized with a common helplessness. Fined-down by the exorbitant demand of work, surrounded, inundated with chatter as the zócalo is when grackles descend en masse whirring, wheedling, scrawking. For us, every hour has become that hour…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #34: Are You My Mother?
You might lose your heart, honey, but you’ll keep your hat.
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National Poetry Month: Day 29. “Cain” by Jericho Brown
Cain First, a conversation. Now, A volcano. Call me quick Tempered vegan. Turnip Lover. Fruit licker. Mound
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #24: Jenna Jameson’s Father Dials 911
The porn star Jenna Jameson, now a 36-year-old mother of 13-month-old twins, was never trained to hit anybody or to defend herself from being hit. Her boyfriend Tito Ortiz, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound damage artist, is a former light heavyweight Ultimate…
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National Poetry Month: Day 28. “How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance” by Nick Lantz
How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance You and I fit together like two millstones, and oh the music we make of grist, going round and round the same
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National Poetry Month: Day 27. “i.e.” by Stacy Kidd
i.e. The window, say the window shattering on a arm Say any given home/ river/ one town over/ loose stone Let loose [of course, towns grow like shattering Say prove the towns or answer with –Stacy Kidd Stacy Kidd is completing a…