Category: Good Writing
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may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it’s Sunday may I be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young – e.e. Cummings
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Miriam
There’s a really great new song from Norah Jones on the NPR website. It’s called “Miriam” and it’s dark and murderous and the music is so calming, it seems heartbreaking at first, but so full of wrath. It’s surprising in every way, especially coming from Norah Jones who has never sang a song like this…
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Who in the world
“i wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is ‘Who in the world am I?’” – Lewis Carroll
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"The Secret About," Anonymous from theRumpus.net
“Like everyone in this world and out of it, I have a relentlessly complicated relationship with sex. Sex is my back-rubbing, silky-voiced soulmate who sometimes—more frequently than once a full moon—goes werewolf on my physical, psychological, and emotional makeup. Sex is my self-love and my self-hate. Sex is my pride and my shame.” “The Secret…
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Excerpt from Inside HigherEd
Capitalism vs. Art One of the fundamental themes of “Seminar,” Rebeck said, is “What does it mean to be an artist in this world we live in now?… What does it mean to be an artist in a capitalist society?” “I’m not so sure that having the critics endorse you is a sign that you’re…
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The Daily Rumpus: an excerpt
“I try to avoid arguments, I don’t want to live my life being against, but that’s what happens. I was with a girl, not so long ago, and she was against so much. The hats people were wearing and the books they were trying to write. I felt my life slipping from my chest as…
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Interview with Kim Hyesoon
“I gradually realized that speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet.” Kim Hyesoon A South Korean poet who is rewriting the role for female poets in her native country. Read the whole interview here
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Letters in the Mail
I just discovered The Rumpus which is sort of a literary/culture website that’s slightly intimidating and hipster-ish, but that I have been lost in for about an hour. The coolest part: Letters in the Mail. “Almost every week you’ll receive a letter, in the mail. Letter writers will include Dave Eggers, Tao Lin, Stephen Elliott,…
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It's here! Menacing Hedge's Winter Edition 2012
I’m so proud and excited to be a part of the winter edition. Be sure to check out the Scary Bush portion where you can read some of my (and others) very first poems and wanderings and get a good chuckle. I really love that they do this – poets take themselves much too seriously…