The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Juliana Spahr
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Juliana Spahr about her new book That Winter the Wolf Came, the oil industry, and writing about "difficult" topics.
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Occupy Movement
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An Occupy LA Roundup
I like Balloon Juice blogger mistermix’s take on last night’s eviction of the LA Occupiers. “There was a chance that cold weather in the North, and general boredom in the…
An Occupy Roundup, Thanksgiving/Black Friday Edition
The American Occupation of America received less attention this week as the country (in my dad’s words) “celebrated the near-genocide of the inhabitants of this hemisphere through the killing and…
Undermining Occupy Wall Street
It doesn’t really matter that this memo has come to light–someone is still going to do this. Count on it. Two things interest me in particular about this memo. The…
An Occupy Roundup
You might get the impression from this piece that the NYPD isn’t interested in respecting the right of the press to cover stories involving them. That’s certainly the impression I…
Observations from Occupy Des Moines
The Occupy Movement is under attack in major cities across the country, and with the weather turning colder, occupiers find themselves facing new obstacles. This is a report from the…
An Occupy Roundup
The NYPD cleared Zuccotti Park this morning, at 1:00 a.m. The obvious question for Mayor Bloomberg is why in the middle of the night? If your real concern was the…
An Occupy Roundup
It’s eviction day in Occupy Oakland. No injuries reported, and 32 people were arrested for failure to disperse. An interesting story of an Oakland police officer who’s been accused of…
An Occupy Roundup
Yesterday was Veterans Day and the American Occupation of America was focused on its members who have served in the armed forces. In the hot front city of Oakland, Scott…
