This is the third year that The Rumpus has celebrated National Poetry Month by running a new, previously-unpublished poem every day for the month. Here’s a link to last year’s…
This week in New York Ai Weiwei’s public art installation debuts at Central Park; a talk on manga and graphic novels at The Japan Society; Kathryn Harrison, author of The…
It’s a Monday so I can link to things like baby aardvarks and Werner Herzog voiceovers to get you through the day. I really hope the Finger-nose stylus takes off.…
30 days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31, excepting The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month celebration, which has 32 this year. Celebrate April 31 with us…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club has been discussing Dean Young’s Fall Higher this month, and given that Young had a heart transplant on the 15th, I’d basically assumed we were…
I’ve been an ardent follower of the NY Times Disunion blog almost since it started. If you’re unfamiliar with it, the Times is reliving the Civil War in a sense,…
An Appeals Court has lifted the injunction against the National Institute of Health’s revised policy on funding stem cell research. That’s the science part of the link. The language part…
So if you look at the calendar, you’d think that today is the last day of National Poetry Month, but we don’t follow calendars all that closely here at The…
What happens when a book is shortlisted for the Orwell prize and its author chooses to remain pseudonymous? Possibly, the beginning of a new canon. “Strictly speaking this isn’t anonymity…
Where mythologizing dictators and threatening artists intersect, totalitarian art was born. Find out about this cultural phenomenon and its many historical/contemporary examples. “The crucial element in the creation of totalitarian…