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Notable New York, This Week 8/01-8/07
This week in New York The Shrinks are Away hosted by Susan Shapiro, Word for Word Poetry at Bryant Park featuring Kundiman poets, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes at Riverside Park, a Super Freaky reading with Stacy Carlson and Alexander…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #45: Chloe Caldwell in Conversation with Sarah Kilborne
I interviewed author, Sarah Kilborne, who lives in the same town as I do, Hudson, New York, and takes banjo lessons downstairs in my father’s music store that I live above. We had dinner a few months ago, where I…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee editor Dan Weiss is on tour with his band. We will try to make due, but make no promises. For fans of middle school math and/or Egyptian mysteries: is this the world’s first protractor? Animal logos! From Purple…
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Updating High School English
I’m married to a high school English teacher. I love hearing about his students’ reactions to books that I also read as a teen: Animal Farm, Brave New World, Macbeth, and more. But are some of these books, the classics,…
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Transgender Students at Women’s Colleges
“‘Women’s colleges are, in my opinion, attempting to figure out how to support trans men, but there are more barriers to trans women who would like to attend their institutions,’ [D. Chase James] Catalano, a trans male who has worked…
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Longreads ♥ Sugar
Congratulations to our own oh-so-lovely Sugar, who’s column “How You Get Unstuck” was today’s Longreads pick thanks to Longreader Logan Sachon.
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The Story Behind “The Road Not Taken”
I’ve often said that Frost’s well-known poem is one of the most misinterpreted in American poetry (among casual readers, that is), and this story in the Guardian seems to back me up. It tells the story of Edward Thomas and…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “God is an American” by Terrance Hayes
When I first read “God is an American,” I was wide-eyed and breathless and thought it might be a love story. To me, Terrance Hayes was the best kind of romantic–the kind of man who uses a German turn of…
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Science Saturday
It’s starting to look like genetic structure, not mutation, is what makes us different from each other. The case for parallel universes. Really want to go zero-emissions on your car? Get your own solar charger. Smallest batter ever. How small?…
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Saturday Morning Links
I had the most perfect onion rings yesterday. I’ll probably rave about them for weeks. Want to know what Richard Nixon testified to during the Watergate hearings? if a federal judge gets his way, you’ll have the chance to read…
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Feministing ♥
Oh-so-rad site Feministing recently called Neelanjana Banerjee’s “Where I Write: A Green Room in Gujarat” essay “really f-ing good.” Thanks Feministing, we love you back!