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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What happens when a space shuttle is retired? (It gives me good reason to link to pictures from the NASA archives is what.) Fun fact: the Peabody museum is a pretty rad place. These wire frame sculptures are neat, Let’s…
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National Poetry Month Day 12: “Dear Empire” by Oliver de la Paz
Dear Empire, These are your murders. I’m not one to speak of atonement, given my sins are expressly for you. Given night’s easy wound and your own scar. Given the smell of old papers, the broken figurine you’ve placed on…
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On Friday, April 8th
On April 8th, Egyptians came to Tahrir Square, as they have every Friday since Hosni Mubarek’s February 11th resignation. These gatherings have become commonplace since the revolution.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #82
CENTIPEDES ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing centipedes.
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A Friendly Gathering in San Francisco (Tonight!)
The Rumpus and ZYZZYVA Proudly Present: “A Friendly Gathering” That’s right. On April 11th (tonigh!), 7pm at the The Make-Out Room, we’re teaming up with ZYZZYVA to throw a party featuring authors David Goodwillie, Erika Recordon, Aryn Kyle, and Matthew…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The god who demands you make this is a god I can get behind. South Koreans have some rad ideas about bike storage innovation. What it took to get into Harvard in 1899. (via Letters of Note.) Let’s all look…
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National Poetry Month Day 11: “Sonnet to Ash Wednesday” by Noelle Kocot
Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s selection for the month of February. You can read Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s essay on why she chose the book here and you can read the Poetry Book Club’s chat with…
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On The Novels Of Politicians
Roll Call has a list of novels written by members of Congress, and the excerpts they present are, as one might expect, not amazing. Here’s an excerpt from Hawaii Governor and former Congressman Neal Abercrombie’s The Blood of Patriots (via):…
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Kids’ Books as Adult Personality Predictors
If you liked Little Women as a kid: “Family may be the most important thing to you, but that wouldn’t stop you from stealing your sister’s ex boyfriend.” —Flavorwire’s write-up on some favorite children’s books and what your favorite says…
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National Poetry Month Day 10: “Universal Translator” by Amy Letter
Universal Translator Universal Translator from Amy Letter on Vimeo. Science fiction stories set in an alien-rich future like to show the universe’s different species communicating seamlessly by means of (what in the Star Trek universe is called) a “Universal Translator.”
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Poetic Lives Online
I hope you’ve been following along with our National Poetry Month project. For links to the poems we’ve already run as well as the poets to come, you can follow this post, which is updated every morning with a link…