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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I realize that NBA basketball is too pop culture-y for us at The Rumpus, but the poetry contest that the Miami Herald put together for the arrival of LeBron James…
Yes, Mechanics Matter (to me, anyway)
Roxane Gay at HTMLGIANT has an interesting piece on the issue of clean, mechanically-sound writing, especially in the creative world, and muses on whether or not the ease of publication…
Science Saturday
The Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity succeeded beyond everyone’s greatest hopes. Now, NASA is building a new Mars rover named Curiosity, which is much larger and heavier than the earlier…
The Latest from Wikileaks
Wikileaks has released 400,000 secret US Army field reports from the Iraq conflict. The UK Guardian has extensive coverage of what’s included in them, and it’s stomach-churning stuff. Why am…
Happy Birthday, Creation!
The universe is officially 6,013 years old today, according to the calculations of James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland. I think we should throw the universe…
Saturday Morning Links
This gets my vote as headline of the week. And it might be good advice if you’re looking to boost voter turnout. Maybe we could offer these as premiums. Are…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Please don’t hate me. Sometimes I just want to link to pictures of utensils. Silver! On the Moon! Illustrating Finnegan’s Wake. I wish I knew more about Germany so I…
The Eyeball #36: BRAKHAGE!!!
I taught another session of my Experimental Films as Writing Prompts class at Hugo House last night. This one we looked at some films by Stan Brakhage. At the outset…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“In fact, most of the life on the planet is probably composed of bacteria.” Let’s take a look at street artist JR (winner of this year’s TED prize), shall we?…
Help a Poet Help Homeless Youth
Rumpus friend and poet extraordinaire D. A. Powell is encouraging his twitter followers to give money to Larkin Street Youth, a support organization for homeless youth in San Francisco. For…