People Know What Readings Are Now: An Interview with Jim Ruland
For fifteen years, Jim Ruland has run a reading series called “Vermin on the Mount.” Last September he hosted the anniversary event and I asked him some questions.
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$50,000 by Andrew Weatherhead
Friends cost money.
$50,000 is a long poem that allows Andrew Weatherhead the space to search everything—his cubicle, his relationships with coworkers and friends, and the worlds found in literature, sports, economics, and history—for something more meaningful than mere facts. What arises in these 116 pages is the pure drama of life: the unrelenting passage of time, the inevitable need to make a living, and the foreboding beauty of numbers, names, and friendship. In hundreds of standalone lines that align with Mike Tyson’s peek-a-boo style, $50,000 moves like prose but sticks with all the weight and heft of poetry.
“$50,000 is one of those poems that could go on eternally—reading it feels like a kind of practice.”
—Elisa Gabbert, author of The Word Pretty
$50,000 by Andrew Weatherhead
Literature. Sports. Economics. History.
$50,000 is a long poem that allows Andrew Weatherhead the space to search everything—his cubicle, his relationships with coworkers and friends, and the worlds found in literature, sports, economics, and history—for something more meaningful than mere facts. What arises in these 116 pages is the pure drama of life: the unrelenting passage of time, the inevitable need to make a living, and the foreboding beauty of numbers, names, and friendship. In hundreds of standalone lines that align with Mike Tyson’s peek-a-boo style, $50,000 moves like prose but sticks with all the weight and heft of poetry.
“$50,000 is one of those poems that could go on eternally—reading it feels like a kind of practice.”
—Elisa Gabbert, author of The Word Pretty
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