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Morning Coffee
Architecture porn of the week: totally sick Singapore garden design. Bizarre police sketches. Cakehead brings you a gallery of awesome and bizarre vintage inventions. My new hero: Liu Bolin, extreme camouflage expert. We are living in the future when articles…
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Mark Athitakis Talks Book Blogging
“I think there’s a lot of thoughtful engagement with books on blogs—a lot of quick-hit riffing and expressions of enthusiasm, and I participate in some of that myself. That has its place—I wouldn’t do it if I think it didn’t—but…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The deadline for entry into the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prizes is nearing. These are some of the most generous poetry prizes available, and they give a large number of them every year. The Rumpus interviewed Mary Rosenberg last March…
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Did You Miss?
It’s been a fascinating couple of weeks here at The Rumpus. Here’s a taste of what you might have missed. Join the conversation at The Blurb#10, especially if you’re a writer, or worse, an employer of writers. Sheera Talpaz makes…
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Science Saturday
Lots of fascinating science news this week. Here we go. The IgNobel Prizes were given out last night, and the honored research included a bra that doubles as a gas mask, diamonds made from tequila, and the discovery that an…
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Have you always wanted to write for The Rumpus part two
Yesterday, Stephen made you an incredible offer. I’m here to expand it. Do you have a favorite obscure poem (and no, poems are not necessarily obscure) or collection of poems you wish you could bring more attention to? Send me…
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Saturday Morning Links
If you’re not reading Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, you ought to be. This dog would be fully justified in refusing to warn its owners in the event of a house fire. I can’t really top the title of this website:…
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #4: Duck
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Duck They were so young, this couple still new to their stories, looking ahead and not looking, locked into marriage. The problem
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Morning Coffee
I heart Ernst Haeckel. (via Metafilter.) Kevin Barnes interviews Daryl Hall. Awesome. Umbrella cloud. Every single page of every single issue of Time Magazine from the 30s through the 70s. We’ve figured out how to cure color-blindness in squirrel monkeys.…
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FUNNY WOMEN #3: Q: “What Will You Do with an MFA in Poetry?”
A: First of all, you can put away your old-school notions about the liberal arts. Back when you grew up, Plato banished poets from his Republic. These days, there is no poet leper colony.
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The Aptly-Named “Dead Hand”
Remember Dr. Strangelove? The Doomsday Machine? It turns out that something very like it, called the Dead Hand, was actually operational, in the USSR, from 1984 at latest, and its pieces may still be around today. PD Smith, author of…