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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey Chapter 2
Every time you write a poem, you're learning to become a poet once again. Your writing imitates not the banal sequence from life to death, but instead imitates a descent into and out of a new womb of clarity.
What the Websites Tell Me to Do
At best, I see her not as my oldest friend, but as the protagonist in a movie, lost and beautiful and unstable, a character I sympathize with even as she self destructs.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #230
EASTER 2014 ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Easter 2014.
The Rumpus Interview with Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus—founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and main songwriter of Pavement, one of the most critically and publicly adored bands in indie rock history—talks about his recent years with the Jicks, writing riffs, and not dwelling on the past.
THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: The Last Good Kiss BY JAMES CRUMLEY
Doesn't it always start with poetry? Or at least a poet. Or at least a writer.
Women Who Prey
Sex in both endeavors [Nymphomanic and Under the Skin] is a must; an addiction in the former and a tool for sustenance in the latter. But in both cases the women are driven by something beyond their control and as a result, they prey.
The Rumpus Interview with Ashley Farmer
Voices call back to one another throughout Ashley Farmer’s Beside Myself—the breaks between stories sometimes function like key changes, encouraging readers to receive the book’s motifs in different ways...
The Post-Pregnancy Body
Belly: There was extra room there for a while, in case he wanted to come back, I suppose.
A Book About The Internet
Americanah is a Book About The Internet, and Ifemelu is living the dream of basically every blogger I know: she gets big enough to make her living through writing stuff and posting it online.
The Rumpus Interview with John W. Evans
John W. Evans talks about his memoir Young Widower, which was partly borne from two Rumpus essays, and how to make meaning of something—especially grief and loss—if not through narrative.
The New Year
Time has lost all meaning. We park and get out of the car. The air is briny and wet. I watch the waves dissolve into the sand.