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The Waste Land

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Before

  • Danielle Cadena Deulen and Shara Lessley
  • October 28, 2021
The mind, you see, wants better weather. The mind wants to believe what suits it best.
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Time Is Just an Idea: Talking with Carly Inghram

  • Kay E. Moore
  • October 22, 2021
Carly Inghram discusses her new poetry collection, THE ANIMAL INDOORS.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “The Hell Poem” by Shane McCrae

  • Dana Levin
  • May 17, 2021
I’m fascinated that the speaker’s harm disappearing is a function of being in Hell.
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A Metaphysical Inquiry: Nick Laird’s Feel Free

  • Jared Spears
  • November 22, 2019
The work maintains a wondering backward, as it were, tracing the varied details of lived experience.
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The Last Poem I Loved: The Waste Land

  • Emily Frisella
  • March 19, 2018
It is March, almost April, and the year feels like a spool of days spliced out of order, leaping treacherously from sun to ice to sun to rain to snow.
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Moving Toward Answers: A Conversation with Stephen Mills

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • January 26, 2018
Poet Stephen Mills discusses his first two collections, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices and A History of the Unmarried, teaching writing, and what's next.
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Banana Palace by Dana Levin

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey
  • November 18, 2016
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Dana Levin's Banana Palace today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Happy Birthday, T. S. Eliot!

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 26, 2013
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…
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The Red Kool-Aid Professor: or, Why Some Girls Like Unicorns: or, How I Failed, and then Succeeded, to Review Poetry Books for The Rumpus

  • Ed McFadden
  • January 19, 2011
A few days ago when we woke up, my girlfriend told me this dream: she and her father were seated in a brown 1983 VW Rabbit, he driving, she in…
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