The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Encountering Judy Chicago
When I walked into the cool, airy space, I was nervous and immediately fascinated by the work, a double nervousness.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jacob Wren
Jacob Wren discusses his newest novel, Polyamorous Love Song, the relationship between art and ethics, and whether Kanye West is a force for good in the art and music world.
Swinging Modern Sounds #63: It’s Supposed to Be Bad
Rick Moody emails with Scott Timberg, author of the new book Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class, about Bob Dylan's new Sinatra covers album, the need for cultural gatekeepers, and the "slippery sub genre" of bad-on-purpose art.
Where I Write #29: Ten Werecantos
We think of our brains as a place. We surround thoughts with metaphors of environment.
Paper Trumpets #20: The Student Sound
This is the 20th Paper Trumpets column, and to celebrate the occasion, we're giving away original collages to 10 lucky commenters!
The Rumpus Interview with Tyler Gartzman
Rapper Tyler Gartzman talks about getting high, hypothetically making out with George Bush, not getting laid since high school, and how a white, Jewish kid in Atlanta became a talented hip-hop wordsmith.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Mask and Dance
Anyone writing a poem knows that you first open yourself and then a poem builds from what you yield. As a poet, you are the carrier of life.
Sweet Baby James
Take off your clothes, the men with guns said. Please, we said. Now, they said.
TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #274
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing The Last Man on Earth!
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kathleen Ossip
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kathleen Ossip about her new book, The Do Over, Catholic school, the afterlife, poem-like things, and how form sets sorely-needed limits.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Fall
We are always falling, all the time, under the sway of one another, in and out of love.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The (Online) Stories We Tell
Sometimes you want to dream about the life you didn’t get to have. Sometimes you want to see the life you were lucky to escape.