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Spotlight: Small Stories #8

  • Madeleine Witt
  • April 2, 2015
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Delicacy and Strength of Lace

  • Jeremy Reed
  • April 2, 2015
In letter-writing, we are not really talking, but the words represent the deep-heldness of our communication.
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Paper Trumpets #21: The Insurance of Company (Die Hand)

  • Kevin Sampsell
  • April 1, 2015
I often buy random photographs in thrift stores and vintage shops when I'm drawn to something in them—an awkward smile, a twinkle in the eye, a revealing hint of uncertainty.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: A Defense of Conceptual Poetry

  • David Biespiel
  • April 1, 2015
My friends, I'm deeply humbled by the opportunity to speak before the most important poetic body in the world, the Internet.
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Jesus and Blueberry Cobbler

  • Sean Towey
  • March 31, 2015
In Seattle, there were more white-boy Rastafarians from the suburbs than people lining up to become Jesuits. Normal was nowhere in sight.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ben Fama

  • Kyle Lucia Wu
  • March 31, 2015
Ben Fama talks about his first full-length poetry collection, Fantasy, the New Narrative movement, and the worst thing that could happen at the Chateau Marmont.
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TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #278

  • Ted Wilson
  • March 30, 2015
BILL COSBY ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Bill Cosby.
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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #64: Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!

  • Rick Moody
  • March 30, 2015
Many of you will not want to believe that “Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!” by the Californian punk band the Urinals, is the greatest song ever written, but that is simply because there is some kind of vise or blood-occluding mechanism attached to the thinking and feeling part of your limbic region.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Right to Remain

  • Alexis Paige
  • March 29, 2015
In jail for drunk driving, dried blood stiffening her jeans, Alexis Paige waits to hear if anyone was hurt in the accident she caused and tries to mean it when she tells herself she'll quit drinking.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Shameless

  • Sarah Sansolo
  • March 28, 2015
I’ve always been somewhat prone to obsession, but my years of intense Britney fandom were the first time that I felt that strongly about an individual person.
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The Itch

  • Kate Colby
  • March 27, 2015
It is always a delight to use a thing for something other than its intended purpose, thus cheating the whole nomenclature system.
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Spotlight: Small Stories #7

  • Madeleine Witt
  • March 26, 2015
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.
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