Q&A: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary, and 100th Issue, of Poetry East Magazine
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In the notoriously fleeting world of poetry publications, the journal’s record of sustained excellence is remarkable
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Q and A: Martha Ackmann Talks Emily Dickinson, Writing in a Cabin, and More
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And How if Feels to Write a Book that Becomes a Broadway Play
Read MoreREVIEW: The Poetry of Jane Kenyon, Who Died Tragically Young 25 Years Ago
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Kenyon has Been Gone Long Enough to Assess her Work Without Dwelling on the Unfulfilled Promise of her Life
Read MoreQ&A: Poet Wesley McNair on His New 63-Page Poem, His Family, and Trump
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‘Dwellers in the House of the Lord’ Melds Two Stories About Love
Read MoreVIDEO: It's Emily Dickinson's Birthday. Listen to a Reading of "Success is Counted Sweetest"
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One of Her Greatest Poems, and One of the Very Few Published in Her Lifetime
Read MoreREVIEW: A Memoir of Living Among Men Who Keep Body Parts as Trophies
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Carolyn Forche Looks Back on the Horrors of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s
Read MoreVIDEO: It's Sylvia Plath's Birthday. Listen to this Short, Wonderful Interview with Her
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She Discusses Poetry, Mental Hospitals, and Why Her interest in Concentration Camps Was “Uniquely Intense.”
Read MoreREMEMBRANCE: Donald Hall, a New England Poet of the First Order
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“I Was Created to Love New Hampshire,” Hall Said — and he Showed that Love in Verse
Read MoreQ&A: John Canaday on Writing Poetry About the Manhattan Project
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Exploring the Lives of the People Who Thrust Humanity Into the Atomic Age
Read MoreREVIEW: Romps and Send-Offs: a Collection of Smart, Sardonic Literary Essays
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Kleinzahler is a poet with a real gift for writing prose
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Daphne Merkin's Lively Memoir of Depression, Refugee Fiction, and More
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And a Compelling Biography-Memoir about the Poet Elizabeth Bishop
Read MoreVIDEO: On his 114th Birthday, Here is Langston Hughes Explaining How He Wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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A poem written while crossing the Mississippi by train at twilight
Read MoreVIDEO: On the Anniversary of His Death, Here is Robert Frost Reading "The Road Not Taken"
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A classic poem about which critics have long disagreed
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