Haiti

Please send all links to poetry@therumpus.net Writers Edwidge Danticat and Simon Winchester are rallying for Haiti. Winchester will be holding a fundraiser at the Manhattan location of Idlewild Books on Tuesday January 19. Fox News reporter breaks down on the…

Please forward any suggestions for links to poetry@therumpus.net. Seems like Rush Limbaugh wasn’t satisfied with being the second-most-dickish person on the Haiti earthquake (though I use the term person loosely). Ta-Nehisi Coates points out that Pat Robertson equated the rejection…

Thanks to everyone who’s been sending in links. Keep them coming to poetry@therumpus.net. So where exactly did Pat Robertson get his “deal with the devil” story from? Thomas Rogers brings the information. Ferentz LaFargue, writing for American City, has some…

Any tips or suggestions should be sent to Brian at poetry@therumpus.net. James Ridgeway at Mother Jones notes that most of the country only seems to hear about Haiti when there’s a disaster of some kind. There’s a rumor on Twitter…

I’ll be doing this until further notice. Any tips or suggestions should be sent to Brian at poetry@therumpus.net. A couple more suggestions for places to donate: The Hunger Site, Partners in Health, and UNICEF. If you’re in south Florida and…

President Obama’s statement on Haiti. UN First Responders HQ was among the buildings destroyed. More from UN Dispatch. Images from the NY Times. An update from Médecins sans Frontiéres. Many of their buildings were damaged, so they’re treating people in…

I can’t begin to tell you how bad the destruction is in Haiti after the massive earthquake yesterday. Reports right now are that the death toll is expected to be in the thousands and that bodies are being piled in…