Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...
Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...
Santa Filomena ,” which he wrote for The Atlantic ’s inaugural issue, in November 1857, attests to his lifelong belief in the ...
These 6 poems capture the essence of unrequited love. Share them with that special someone who doesn't feel the same way, but ...
Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...
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 ...
We take a deep dive into the Kurt Cobain tribute that Courtney Love penned in under 20 minutes, locked in a friend's bathroom.
(She'd left him alone to put it on.) Seeing him, she claps and says he looks amazing. "I love it," she adds as he sits down. Though they're supposed to meet everyone from dinner, he obviously ...
A Crown Court jury hearing the trial of a qualified nurse accused of fraud and repeatedly breaching regulations over prescription-only medicines was discharged today. Judge Geoffrey Miller KC told ...
The jury is now in deliberations to decide the fate of Eric Thompson, the man on trial for the murder of his wife's ex-lover. Prosecutors argued that DNA evidence proves that Eric was at the scene ...