Good things happen when people who grow up listening to Thriller become poets. There’s going to be a new Bukowski exhibit down Southern California way, including his “annotated racing forms”…
So, did you like our National Poetry Month project? If you missed any of the poems, check them out here. Barbara Jane Reyes has some interesting thoughts on poetic tradition.…
Rep. Duncan D. Hunter of California–a guy who owes his career to his father and the population of the Congressional district who continually re-elected him–thinks that being born in the…
Birds are already starting to turn up covered in oil. National Geographic has some early photos. In what will come as a surprise to almost no one, it’s being reported…
Yes, we know the old rhyme “30 days hath September, April, June, and November,” but here at Rumpus Original Poetry, we’re not satisfied with a 30 day National Poetry Month.…
Back to the regular Saturday grind. We’ll have some oil spill and Arizona asininity for you later in the day, but I think we should start off the morning with…
Welcome to National Poetry Month at The Rumpus! We’ll be running new, previously-unpublished poems every day for the month of April, and we’ll be linking all of them here, as…
Does the iPad have an app that can simulate this walking bookshelf? Thing I have never wanted to see: Charles Burns’ Black Hole in real life. Starlee Kine wants you…
We just posted “DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #34” and it is, as always, fantastic. But without questions from readers such as yourself Sugar can’t give advice. So if…
Today we ran an excerpt from The End of Major Combat Operations by Nick McDonell. For those readers who live in San Francisco, McDonell will be reading from his book…