Poetry Kung Fu or: Breaking Boards With Your Head is Dumb, Write Poems Instead
Part 1: The Student Bruce Lee wrote poetry and it is beautiful.
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A Zinester’s Journey
Anne Elizabeth Moore’s travel memoir, Cambodian Grrrl, is a humourous, self-effacing tale of an American abroad.
What Is Already Living: Author, Autobiography and Fiction in the Age of Social Networking
WRITE YOUR STORY reads the advertising placard for corporate octopus Citibank on display in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. The campaign’s thrust appears to be this: by spending money, being a consumer, one, in fact, indites a story on the face of the everyday.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #104
KERMIT THE FROG ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Kermit the Frog.
The Rumpus Interview with Kirsten Kaschock
I met Kirsten Kaschock twelve years ago when we were new graduate students in creative writing in the Syracuse University MFA program—she, in poetry; I, in fiction. She was pregnant…
All Over Coffee #553
Click image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights…
Fingers Through Sweat-Curled Hair
Biddinger’s repeated returns to haptic perception as a legitimized approach to the divine, or a sense of peace or benediction, amounts to an aesthetic necessity, alongside the necessity of putting…
Albums of Our Lives: Steve Martin’s Let’s Get Small
“Well, excuuuuuuuuuse me!” my mother says from the kitchen when we complain about baked chicken again. “Well excuuuuuuuuuuuse me!” grumbles my father when we change the channel from the Auburn…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #86: Tiny Revolutions
Real change happens on the level of the gesture.
The Art of Being an Undergraduate
Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding is not actually a baseball novel; it’s a college novel, a great college novel.