“Playgrounds for kids are often decorated with fairy tales, cartoon or just funny made-up characters. They are intended to bring joy to the children, but sometimes it is scary to…
You really should buy my book, but if you were thinking of joining the Poetry Book Club this month, you’ll get it for free–signed and everything. We–I or The Rumpus–aren’t…
You can watch Al Jazeera streaming here. They’re going to be the best people on the ground to follow without a doubt. Here’s a profile of Omar Suleiman, the man…
Ancient humans may have left Africa far earlier than we thought. And yet, only about 28% of public school science teachers “consistently and ‘unabashedly’ introduce evidence that evolution has happened,…
Why don’t you buy my book? If you’re in south Florida and looking for something to do tonight, come by 18 Rabbit Gallery and check out the Sound Art show.…
I’ve discovered, having done a number of these roundups for The Rumpus now, that The Guardian is one of the best anywhere at covering a story like this. Nick Baumann…
Rumpus buddy Will Schofield (of A Journey Around My Skull) will be updating weekly at But Does It Float. Here he is his first. Moonlight Sonata reverberating through milk. That’s…
“So much ruin photography and ruin film aestheticizes poverty without inquiring of its origins, dramatizes spaces but never seeks out the people that inhabit and transform them, and romanticizes isolated…