Of punctuation there was little; she used chiefly dashes, and it has been thought better, in printing these letters, as with her poems, to give them the benefit in this respect of the ordinary ...

Wouldn’t it create a sense of connection with a particular person in this world (the poet, in this case) who seems to understand what you are going through? Poetry has been for so long either ...

Writer Matt Hoisch, who has spent nearly a year interviewing poets for a project, describes the public good that comes from ...

As soon as "Can Poetry Matter?" was published, the responses began. Letters poured into The Atlantic, copies of which they shipped to me in thick bundles. Other mail came to me directly or through ...

I want to thank the Springfield News-Leader for carrying the columns gathered together by Missouri’s Poet Laureate David Harrison — yes, the David Harrison of the David Harrison Elementary School in ...

He’s quite a force! In a time of national political tensions and increasing Middle Eastern strife, having a column to read in the Sunday paper dealing with poetry and the pleasures derived from ...