Posts Tagged: The Waste Land

Before

By

The mind, you see, wants better weather. The mind wants to believe what suits it best.

...more

The Last Poem I Loved: “The Hell Poem” by Shane McCrae

By

I’m fascinated that the speaker’s harm disappearing is a function of being in Hell.

...more

Moving Toward Answers: A Conversation with Stephen Mills

By

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.

...more

Happy Birthday, T. S. Eliot!

By

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 Waste Land and plays like Murder in the Cathedral—oh, and that children’s book that eventually became the […]

...more

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

By

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 the back, when the Red Kool-Aid professor appeared in the passenger seat. He was holding a graduated cylinder filled with red liquid. “Is this a […]

...more

The Rumpus in your inbox!

* indicates required