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The Red Kool-Aid Professor: or, Why Some Girls Like Unicorns: or, How I...
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...
View ArticleHappy 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...
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Banana Palace by Dana Levin
I eagerly awaited my advanced review copy of Dana Levin’s fourth book, Banana Palace, after talking to an enthusiastic intern at Copper Canyon about it a year ago and finding out it was all about...
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Moving Toward Answers: A Conversation with Stephen Mills
I like to imagine meeting Stephen Mills in Florida in 2012: he and his partner Dustin driving north to their new home in New York City, my partner Angie and me driving south to our new home in Miami....
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The Last Poem I Loved: The Waste Land
April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring and rain. It is March, almost April, and the year feels like a spool of days...
View ArticleA Metaphysical Inquiry: Nick Laird’s Feel Free
Feel Free, the 2017 collection of poems by Nick Laird, is haunted by an uneasy attitude toward selfhood. The jacket copy which wraps the thin Faber & Faber volume tempts would-be readers with...
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The Last Poem I Loved: “The Hell Poem” by Shane McCrae
Many poets write from dreams, but few poets alive today have embarked on the monumental visio, or dream vision, genre of poetry. In its classic form, the visio reveals knowledge not usually accessible...
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Time Is Just an Idea: Talking with Carly Inghram
Carly Inghram’s The Animal Indoors, released by Autumn House Press, winner of the 2020 CAAPP Book Prize, and a Rumpus Poetry Club selection, is touted by Terrence Hayes as “a capacious, capricious new...
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Before
The future enters us, writes Rainer Maria Rilke, in order to be transformed in us, long before it happens. Consider, for instance, his infant sister’s christening gown packed in a storage trunk after...
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