National Poetry Month Extra
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.…
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Saturday Morning Links
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…
Bad Hair Contest
Don’t forget about Steve Almond’s Bad Hair Museum, a Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life Contest. Click here for more details.
Rumpus Original Poems National Poetry Month Lineup
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 We’ll be running new, previously-unpublished poems every day for the month of April, and we’ll be linking all of them here, as…
Morning Coffee
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…
Dear Readers
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…
Nick McDonell in San Francisco
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…
Find Out What Facebook Publishes About You and Your Friends
There’s a new online tool available thanks to developer Ka-Ping Yee that answers one simple but important question: “What does Facebook publish about you and your friends?” While the tool…
Morning Coffee
This guy died doing what he loved. Oh, sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say this guy is dead and his dead body is on display riding a…
New York and San Francisco Readers
Looking for something to do tonight? Well don’t forget to check out Notable New York and Notable San Francisco throughout the week for fun events in your city. For example,…
Enforcing Etiquette on Twitter?
“A small but vocal subculture has emerged on Twitter of grammar and taste vigilantes who spend their time policing other people’s tweets — celebrities and nobodies alike. These are people…
Morning Coffee
Old Robots. New robot. Or maybe we’re the robots, man. Maybe we’re the robots. Apollo 11 launch in slow motion. The Best Show on WFMU gives us Rambocky.