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Fantasy Football For Poets: Week 9

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • October 31, 2013
“Okay, what would your children want me to do?” asked head trainer Paul Sparling. “Take care of daddy?”
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“This Is Just To Say I’m a Zombie” by David Hernandez

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  • October 31, 2013
Happy Halloween from Rumpus Poetry, where we're pleased to offer you this take on William Carlos Williams's "This is just to say" by David Hernandez.
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The Rumpus Interview with Katy Butler

  • Jody Smiling
  • October 30, 2013
Journalist Katy Butler discusses her memoir, Knocking on Heaven's Door: A Path to a Better Way of Death, why medicine and technology often cloud the larger issues of dying, and how we should contemplate the end of our lives.
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HEAVY-HANDED: Shooting Star

  • Chelsea Martin
  • October 30, 2013
Whenever I see a shooting star I think I have to make a wish but the first thing I think is always, "I wish I were dead!"
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A Stabbing in Finsbury Park

  • Elaine Castillo
  • October 30, 2013
What I’m interested in is: How do you write what you weren’t allowed to know about what you know? How do you write what nobody wants to know about what you know?
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The Rumpus Interview with Aimee Bender

  • Krisserin Canary
  • October 29, 2013
The luminous Aimee Bender talks about writing short stories, the importance of liking and defending your characters, and relying on the unconscious instead of intention.
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FUNNY WOMEN #109: Epicurious.com: Reader Comments

  • Devorah Blachor
  • October 29, 2013
Write your own review or comment here...
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Hand-Operated Shearing Instruments

  • Kristen Arnett
  • October 29, 2013
There are a lot of performance issues when it comes to scissoring. Everyone’s tried it, at least once. This is what I tell people when I have this conversation after two or three beers. It’s a lesbian rite of passage.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #205

  • Ted Wilson
  • October 28, 2013
FLAMETHROWERS ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing flamethrowers.
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The Country Outside Us

  • Sara Schaff
  • October 28, 2013
In Ireland, I fell in love easily and often. On the bus from Galway to Dublin; in a smoky, centuries-old pub; on a Donegal beach, my hair wet with rain.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Veronica’s Teeth

  • Joshua Mohr
  • October 27, 2013
"...people like us made our own destruction. We suicide-bombed our own lives."
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Saturday Rumpus Comic: Unpeeling

  • Yumi Sakugawa
  • October 26, 2013
I placed my nose on your left shoulder and my eyes instantly welled up with tears.
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