THE RUPTURE TENSE: Poems, by Jenny Xie William Butler Yeats once pictured himself as a golden bird perched on a golden bough, singing to ancient lords and ladies “of what is past, or passing, or ...

Gorman’s latest poetry collection, “Call Us What We Carry,” offers reverence and effervescence, gravity and impishness, and poems that are focused, pithy and playfully heretical.

Poems by Lamplight. Frost was so completely a part of the present-day life of America that it was often hard to realize that he had been born during the Administration of Ulysses S. Grant.

That's and you see it in a number of poems that are rather darker than most people who think of Frost the kindly New England poet. … ‘Acquainted with the Night,’ for instance.” “I have ...

The quarrel with ourselves, on Father’s Day. By Stephen McInerney. September 6, 2020 — 12.40am. ... bought me the Collected Poems of Robert Hayden, which contained Those Winter Sundays.

The poet was in his late eighties—and, as it turns out, the last years of his life (he died in 1963)—when Shirley Clarke directed this patient, revelatory portrait of him in his calm ...