Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...
We caught up with Zimbabwe-born Presley Pfereka about bucket list port stops, being apart from her daughters, and writing ...
In 1903, citizens of Kishinev went on a rampage — a pogrom against the Jews. That pogrom claimed the lives of 49 Jews and ...
They were passing along what they’d heard from a poet who had already once experienced such a world around the time of their ...
"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...
In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...
Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...
Opinion
Is poetry useless?
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...
Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me," Caleb Carr recounts his extraordinarily loving, therapeutic friendship with ...
Part of her remit is to extol the virtues of public transport, as well to inspire children and young people to write poetry.
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