The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Cate Marvin
In Episode 11 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Cate Marvin discusses her new collection, Oracle, marsupials, and why she’ll never write a prose poem.
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Was Prufrock the First Hipster?
For the Atlantic, Karen Swallow Prior puts a new spin on the origin story of the “hipster,” arguing that T.S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock was actually one of the first: Prufrock of the cuffed white flannel trousers cultivates a detached earnestness that…
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Happy Birthday, T. S. Eliot!
Don’t let that Oxford education and British citizenship fool you: 125 years ago today, Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He went on to become one of the defining voices of the modernist movement with poems like The…