In Case You Missed. . .
Last month’s North Beach Poetry Festival, William Taylor, Jr., poet, author of Words For Songs Never Written, and gentleman, has provided a very succinct report of the festival’s events which,...
View ArticleThe Sunday Rumpus Essay: Veronica’s Teeth
There’s the night that Veronica knocked her front teeth out. It was only the two of us, me and V. We’d been in North Beach all night and now we were walking to wherever we were going. I have no idea....
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The Rumpus Interview with Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, most recently, Gravesend and Landscapes on a Train, as well as a chapbook, Walk. Her work has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the New American...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: April, 1968
Tony and I went out delivering late one spring morning. As we stood on the edge of the Panhandle waiting for a gap in the cars speeding down Oak Street, Janis Joplin drove by in a convertible, hair all...
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My Summers of Work, Revolution, and Love
1967 was our summer of work. My father was on a supply vessel to Vietnam; my mother was minding our grocery store near North Beach, the nerve center of the Summer of Love. Hippies were leaving their...
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