Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the poem "Nothing New" for The New Yorker, and he joins us now. Welcome, Jay. JAY PARINI: Andrew, thank you for having me on.

No inaugural poem on Monday? Although poets are gobstruck about this, odists recognize that, symbolically, this is a Robert Frost “gift outright.” Poetry’s guerilla army of readers also have ...

When the speaker of Frost’s poem wonders what use a wall might be that encloses no livestock, I wonder that, too. ... I’ve been thinking of her, and of Robert Frost and his neighbor.

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...