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

One of the reasons Oppen gave up poetry was to keep politics out of it. His aesthetic allegiances made him wary of personal confession. Objectivism (which had nothing to do with Ayn Rand’s ...

David L. Harrison Many classroom visits ago, a second-grade boy rose from his seat as I was introducing a poem and called out, “Don’t talk, just do the poems!” With that in mind I will keep ...