The Last Poem I Loved: “To My Twenties” by Kenneth Koch
“Only this do you know for sure: time is an ellipsis until it is not.”
Rumpus Originals
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THE LONELY VOICE #11: Eudora Welty, Total Bad Ass
Greatest American short story writer? Ever? For me, it’s not even an interesting question. Welty in a landslide.
The Hokum of Her Clothes
[O]ne of Laux’s strengths is her willingness to break through those poetic walls so many of us construct. She seems to want no distance between herself and her reader.
Super Hot Prof on Student Word Sex: Jane Roper
Talk me through the class in which we met. Anything you can remember that doesn’t involve how poorly I dressed.
Where I Write #9: A Cabin on the Lakefront
I stopped counting when I reached eighteen moves. That was a few moves ago. I am very good at packing my life into boxes.
In This Light
In This Light, a collection of Melanie Rae Thon’s short stories, shows the writer’s shifts in the last twenty years, while reminding us of her powerful, haunting storytelling.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #87
THE RAPTURE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Rapture.
The Rumpus Interview with Noah Cicero
Noah Cicero is the author of The Human War (Fugue State Press, 2003), The Condemned (Six Gallery Press, 2006), Burning Babies (Parlor Press, 2006), Treatise (A-Head Publishing, 2008), and The…
WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE: The Alligator Man and the Bearded Lovely
What is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics,…