By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

As a teenager in 1950s San Francisco, she had been on the brink of a singing career — just like Johnny Mathis, who was two ...

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...