National Poetry Month Day 33: “Carpal Seeple” by Joyelle McSweeney
No tyrannical calendar will define National Poetry Month for us! Carpal Seeple I want to get Augustan pass the mustard make it matter make it
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Last week two of my favorite websites in the whole dang internet joined forces to feature rad bookplates. Maybe the key to helping premature babies lies in the kangaroo. Everyone…
“Mistakes Were Made”
At The New York Times, Constance Hale continues her writing lessons series with an exploration of the appropriate uses and pitfalls of the notorious passive voice. “…Some of the worst…
TPM Switches to Facebook Comments
In an interesting move, popular political site Talking Points Memo will begin using Facebook comments as their main commenting system. TPM Editor John Marshall explains the decision here. “…To make…
In Front of a Thousand Clowns
At Worn Stories, Fiona Helmsley writes about a thrift-store-find Christian Dior slip, and her former fiancé. “That night, I looked like a lost Beale. With his preppy good looks and…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
There is rarely a need to smash things. Just in time for yesterday, Diego Rivera’s Moscow May Day. It’s a whole dang world out there. Chinese fast food. People were…
Thanks, Brooklyn Based!
We’re honored to be included in this compilation of “Six Literary Blogs You Should Be Reading Daily” over at Brooklyn Based’s The Freelance Life. “Influence-wise The Rumpus feels like it…
“Perimeter-less Perimeters”
Believer co-founder and co-editor Heidi Julavitz writes about how online journals (such as The Rumpus!) caused the Believer to rethink some of its original tenets, including a strong resistance to…
May Day Update
I grew up in the Deep South in the 70’s and 80’s, where unions were limited in number and power by Orwellian-named “right-to-work” laws, so I thought May Day involved…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Not so fast you guys, asteroid mining might be illegal. The future is dog poop for wi-fi. Norway has just found a whole new kind of life. Way to go…
Mapped Transitions
BOMBLOG interviews Terrance Nance about his debut feature film An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, mapping life’s transitional moments, and becoming filter-less. “I’m not going to call what I attempted an…
Notable San Francisco
This week in San Francisco: Monday 4/30: Martin Scorsese’s biopic George Harrison: Living in the Material World screens (for cheap) at the Roxie Theater. 7:30pm $10. Tuesday 5/1: Ironic Comic…